Re: 9.6 install

[Brian Parkins <goodprophet.bp@xxxxxxxxx>]

+1.

Just ran a rough test - it took just under 8mins for 7Zip to extract one 
of the (two) RDi 9.6 .ZIP files. That was done on an external HDD - so 
would have been quicker on an internal HDD or SSD.

Brian.

On 20/02/2018 22:09, Pete Helgren wrote:
> Extracting a zip with 7zip is SO much faster that the "native" 
> unzipper (on Windows at least).   Once I saw the difference, I never 
> make the mistake of unzipping with whatever Microsoft calls it's 
> archive tool....that might account for the slowness if you aren't 
> using 7zip.
>
> Pete Helgren
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> On 2/20/2018 12:46 PM, Greg Wilburn wrote:
> > The install was night/day different. Downloading the images didn't 
> > take that long, but extracting the zip files had an estimate of 1 
> > hour plus for each of them.
> >
> > Copying the workspace was great also.
> >
> > It would just be nice to have a short, concise (i.e. one page of 
> > bullet points) step-by-step on how to do this - I somehow think this 
> > would be a monumental task for IBM (LOL).  It's been a while, but I 
> > vaguely recall similar frustrations with a previous install.
> >
> > Maybe this is a bigger hurdle to SEU users than you think?