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binary64 · 2008-05-10, 19:59

CD2? sounds like your "XP disc" is MCE edition? I suppose it doesn't matter, other than MCE needs a disc 2. Long term plan is to merge MCE's CD1 and CD2 during the 'Make ISO' stage. Volenteers always welcome

as this is a low-priority todo.

It can take up to 5 hours to fully install, but you can reduce this to about 2 hours by pre-caching all the downloads. The pre-caching system is alpha quality, but does works. I'll write some user-instructions up for it soon.

An eventually, I can implement parallel downloading, and parallel installation threads, as some updates can be installed in parallel. Long time away for this though. Install time isn't an issue for me since it's unattended, it's not a big deal.

The biggest issue atm is the fact that booting Bluepill machine requres MeediOS | Bringing Media to Life to be online and healthy. And gracefully handling dead update urls (if the update in question is skipable).

Thanks for testing, are you on VM or real?

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binary64 Portal Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 94 Thanks: 1 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	CD2? sounds like your "XP disc" is MCE edition? I suppose it doesn't matter, other than MCE needs a disc 2. Long term plan is to merge MCE's CD1 and CD2 during the 'Make ISO' stage. Volenteers always welcome as this is a low-priority todo. It can take up to 5 hours to fully install, but you can reduce this to about 2 hours by pre-caching all the downloads. The pre-caching system is alpha quality, but does works. I'll write some user-instructions up for it soon. An eventually, I can implement parallel downloading, and parallel installation threads, as some updates can be installed in parallel. Long time away for this though. Install time isn't an issue for me since it's unattended, it's not a big deal. The biggest issue atm is the fact that booting Bluepill machine requres MeediOS \| Bringing Media to Life to be online and healthy. And gracefully handling dead update urls (if the update in question is skipable). Thanks for testing, are you on VM or real?