[wellylug] Linux admin advice

[Chris Hodgetts]

20 HOURS!!!!!!!!!

What are they smoking....

Come on this is a distro based on Debian..

apt-get install blah blah blah blah blah

It goes away and installs -- 20 hours my rear end!!!

if there was setup of the databases and set up of apache and all that 
crap, maybe --- no not even come to think of it...

from barebones system (laptop) to fully working ubuntu setup, 2 hours 
max is all it took me

admitted I dont like ubuntu, and now sarge is frozen, will be making my 
back to the beloved, but 20 hours!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Where these contractors?








Brent Wood wrote:
>>I don't have a similar situation, but if the machines are identical in 
>>hardware (or even relatively close) then they ought to have set one up and 
>>simply mirrored it to the other machine. No reason to go through a lengthy 
>>installation on both machines.
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> 
> Agreed. But my belief is that about 2 hrs would be a reasonable time, perhaps
> if they had had some problems, maybe 3-4 hrs per box. But they chose which
> boxes to use and which distro, so I'm not even sure they should charge me for
> any related 
> problems.
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> 
>>Building a machine from a pile of hardware takes around an hour or two if 
>>everything goes smoothly.
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> 
> Systems were fully assembled (used) Compaq boxes. No time for hardware assembly
> required. Just plug in screen, kb, mouse, power & LAN. They chose them from
> available spare boxes.
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>>With a good distribution like Debian, Fedora, etc, I imagine you could 
>>install everything (without anything but the most basic configuration) in 
>>an hour, plus download time if packages are unavailable. Even faster if 
>>they've done it before and have all the packages and media on hand.
>>
>>Mirroring to the second machine plus reconfiguration might take a maximum 
>>of an hour depending on a few things.
>>
>>That's just my opinion anyway - perhaps I misinterpreted the scope of the 
>>question. An unreasonable time would be more than 8 hours for the entire 
>>setup (it shouldn't take more than a day unless they've installed Gentoo).
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> 
> What I am trying to do is see if my expectations are unreasonable, which is why
> I didn't put the numbers in the original message.
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> 
> FYI, they claimed 20 hours total to do it with Ubuntu on the two systems, which
> was the distro they preferrd to use. They said pretty much- that is how long it
> takes to do it properly.
> 
> My feeling is that they are claiming at least 3x and possibly over 10x what is
> reasonable.
> 
> 
> Brent
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>>David.
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