On 2009-09-02 at 00:09:33 [+0200], Jorge G. Mare <koki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Michael, > > Michael Lotz wrote: > > It's fixed for the most relevant case (i.e. reading nodes from the CD) > > in r32898. Whether or not it is substantially faster I haven't tested. > > Would be cool if you could provide updated timings to see the effect. > > > > FYI, in r32898 the Haiku CD goes from "Continue booting" in the boot > loader to the license window in about 1 min 6 sec; this compares > favorably against the 1 min 30 sec that it used to take with r32871. Sounds great! I am about to see it in action myself... :-D > > Personally I see it exactly as the use case for that package drop down > > in Installer. Packages like most of the development stuff (perl, gcc, > > phyton and the like) should simply be put on the CD as a ZIP and they > > should get an entry in that package list. These packages aren't > > relevant for LiveCD mode really, so I don't see the benefit of having > > them extracted. I guess we could even just reuse the current optional > > package ZIPs, so no extra work involved in making new packages. > > > > +1 Absolutely agreed, but for alpha 2 maybe. I'm afraid I cannot make the time. I have some time today and then from Monday on again. Alpha 1 is supposed to be feature frozen, so the implementation I had in mind would be super simple and only designed to "fix the problem" of the really long copy process. Best regards, -Stephan