Red Hat Install of 2.1 vice 4.0

[mdulcey at pryder.pn.com (Mark J. Dulcey)]

On Fri, 17 Jan 1997, Barry Ryan wrote:

> The Red Hat 2.1 version (from disk #2 of Nov 95 Slackware) seems to be
> working.  It does show one major difference, TIME.  Using the 4.0 version,
> it would have all of the modules installed within 15 minutes!  
> 
> I looked at the package again, and didn't see anything to the effect of
> CDRom Speed?  I am using a 2X for my Linux machine.  Version 2.0 takes
> almost 3 hours to load onto the machine?  I don't know if it is the
> Slackware disk or is that about correct!  

The install process for old versions of Red Hat Linux was quite slow,
mostly due to performance problems in RPM (Red Hat's package manager),
which was written in Perl in those days.  It has since been replaced with
a much faster version written in C.  Speed of your CD-ROM drive wasn't
much of a factor with the old version, but will speed up installation of
the current one.