d-i slowness on QNAP TS-209

[Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>]

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Hi,

I recently installed Debian on a QNAP TS-209 (armel). There were very long 
delays, up to a few minutes, between some d-i screens, especially in partman 
(see the original thread on debian-arm [1]).

I believe this was with the squeeze alpha1 version of d-i [2], or possibly a 
snapshot. In any case it was suffering from #585733 and couldn't create any 
ext4 partitions, so I restarted with the lenny installer instead. This did 
not suffer from the long delays.

The setup was two 2 TB SATA drives, with LVM on top of md RAID1. The long 
pauses occurred for example when:
*entering the RAID manager,
*after configuring a partition (mount point, file system etc) and returning 
to the main partman screen,
*after confirming the partitioning setup, before the progress bar when it 
creates the file systems.

Is this anything I should investigate more? Since I have now succeeded in 
installing the machine, I am reluctant to reflash it with d-i again unless 
it is really worthwhile.

Cheers,

Marcus

[1] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.ports.arm/8585
[2] http://ftp.acc.umu.se/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-
armel/current/images/orion5x/netboot/qnap/ts-209/
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