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Install Time: Depends on hardware and install media. In general, it takes me about an hour to set up a fresh machine including patching and setting up initial user environment, then about another 10 minutes to set up all the restricted packages for media/dvd/mp3 playback.
If setting up a server, it is shorter as you tend to only install the packages you want and is often on very generic hardware. Desktops and laptop tend to be a little tricker. Takes about the same amout of time to install as Windows Vista. However if you are doing two or three the same, then you just tell the system to make a config file at the end of the install, then your next install can use the file to install exactly the same way without asking questions, or you can attach the drive for the second machine and duplicate the install using a "dd" command (disk duplicate - can do a block level copy like ghost does, but it's free and part of the OS)
Preserving the OS is easy, if you dont have free space on the drive, it will ask to shrink the detected NTFS or FAT partitions to create room, but I have found a couple of times that the partitions can't shrink them and the install bombs, but the original partitions aare still OK. You can always install a second HDD very weasily and install on that. The boot loader will know where each OS is on the disk. the "/" partition doesnt have to be on the primary drive, just the bootloader. SATA makes this much easier than with the older Primary/Secondary IDE channel Master/Slave jumper setup.; Posted by: chromeronin Posted on: 07/08/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use