Is it me, or installation is damn slow?

Bluefin and Aurora
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i tried to install on kvm the latest aurora (downloaded 31th of october 2024) and ran it with

qemu-system-amd64 -cpu host -k fr -machine q35 -accel kvm -smp 6 -m 4g  -boot d  -drive file=aurora.qcow2 -cdrom ~/Downloads/aurora-dx-stable.iso

at first, i tried with luks. but the installation took more than an hour. i thought it was some king of luks problem.

then i began another time, without luks.

but still, it’s more than an hour i am waiting for it to finish, and still not finish. i can see the progress still, but several message change : "installation of runtime org.gnome. and so on.

i run my test on an dell xps , 13th Gen Intel(R) Core™ i7-13700H, Disk model: PC SN810 NVMe WDC 512GB, 16 GB of ram.

i’m not accustomed to this kind of slow install. but maybe it’s just normal, as the way the system is managed in a “atomic” way.

please let me know ? is it me, or it’s just the way it is ? (and i can grab a coffee)

best regards from France

jyc

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the qcow2 qemu image is 40 GB.

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Found the problem. Was cpu bound. My hardware seem a bit old.
load average of 9 on 5 min, 20% iowait on “python3 -m pyanaconda.modules.payloads”

Took me 20 min later on another computer.

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That’s the problem I have too. I sorely need a newer laptop but I’m just making it work for now. I’m running a ThinkPad x201. For any heavy work I try to do it remotely on my home server box which is a bit more beefy.

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I think this will improve once bootc lands. The rpm-ostree git/hashing stuff is pretty CPU intensive.

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