Lucid OEM install slow - possible to speed up the process?

[Karl Larsen]

On 04/27/2010 11:15 PM, Carsten Agger wrote:
> I'm currently preparing an OEM installation for a vendor who desires to
> sell Ubuntu pre-installed on a 10" netbook. I'm installing from a USB
> stick with the Lucid release candidate alternate install.
>
> Basically I press F4 for "modes", select OEM and proceed with the
> installation. Afterwards the vendor setting up the computer is supposed
> to run a script manually which I expect to put on the CD by preseeding
> (but haven't done that yet).
>
> One problem with this approach is that it's incredibly slow, much slower
> than installing from the live CD. Why is that? I suppose it must be more
> or less the same packages.
>    
     You may have used a slow USB stick.




> I believe I did an install from the live CD in twenty minutes, but the
> OEM install takes more than an hour. This is sort of acceptable since
> the actual customer will not have to do this, still ... is it possible
> to do this also in twenty minutes or at least understand why?
>
> And, once oem-config-prepare is scheduled to run, might it be possible
> to simply replicate the installation by grabbing an image and copying on
> boot to another, identical computer? In that way one would only have to
> do the original OEM install once, the rest could be image-replication.
>
>    
     This is exactly what you do in production of many computers with 
the same software. There are good software to copy one hard drive from 
another.





> best regards and thanks in advance for any response,
>
> Carsten Agger
>
> PD: I'm unsure which list to ask this on. Yesterday, I tried posting
> this question on the ubuntu-devel list but apparently it was not
> approved, so now I'm trying here. Excuse me if inappropriate.
>
>
>    
73 Karl


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