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SW2008 Admin Image slow to install

Question asked by Michael Paauwe on Nov 7, 2007
Latest reply on Nov 16, 2007 by Eirik Sæther

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Has anyone experienced this?
I gave up trying to install the image directly to the network drive after a few hours.
I am trying to install it to my C Drive.
The drive has over 100GB free
The antivirus software is disabled.
The install progress told me it would take 17 minutes. It said that for about 10 minutes but it has now updated it's estimate to 46 minutes remaining.
I killed the last attempt after 2 hours. It had installed 1.5GB to the image directory. The software indicated that the final image size would be 4.7GB so that means about 6 hours to install.
Something is wrong but darned if I can figure out what.

Any suggestions?

Michael Paauwe Nov 8, 2007 9:33 PM

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The culprit was Symantec antivirus.
Our IT department has it locked so that it cannot be disabled so I got permission to temporarily uninstall the antivirus software and what do you know. The admin image took 20 mins installing from DVD to network location.
So be warned. Antivirus software can increase the install time by 25 times!

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Martin Stokes Nov 7, 2007 6:47 AM

Are you using the Installation Manager? I did ours using the command prompt (msiexec /a etc...) and it only took about 30 mins onto a network share. 6 hours to create an admin image is crazy....

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Martin

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Michael Paauwe @ Martin Stokes on Nov 7, 2007 6:46 PM

Yes, that was using the installation manger that autoruns when you install the DVD.
In the end it took 8.5 hours and appears to have finished without error. I have yet to try an install from this image though.
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Mike

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Brian Hughes @ Michael Paauwe on Nov 8, 2007 3:35 AM

I recently created an admin image on a P4 3 Ghz w/ 1 GB RAM on a USB HD with 100 GB free.

It took about 8 hours. This includes about 6 hours of downloading before creating the admin image on the external HD.

I did 3 machines at the same time, including the machine serving the admin image and it took about 45 to finish everything up. (ie Activating COSMOS.)

It took me about 10 hours, 6 hours one day and 2 another and 2 another day to get a 6 workstation lab up and running. I was able to install SolidWorks Office Premium including COSMOSWorks Advanced Professional and COSMOSFloWorks on three machines via the Stand Alone installation method and a fourth I used to create an Admin Image.

The three standalone installs downloaded the 4.7 GB of media and installed in about 4 hours. The admin image took about 6 hours. Though I left before it was done installing the admin image to the HD. It was completed downloading however.

All machines are P4 3GHz with 1 GB of RAM. Windows XP. SolidWorks 2008 SP 0.1

The lack of progress display is bothersome, just a list of files scrolling would definately alleviate the "What's going on with this thing?!?!" feeling.

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Martin Stokes Nov 8, 2007 6:57 AM

Wow - looks like I'll stick to using the command line to create admin images...

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Martin

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Daniel Hogsett Nov 8, 2007 9:28 PM

I've created an image twice and it only took about 30-40 minutes. One thing to try. Copy your DVD to your hard drive and install from there. That is what I did.

Dan

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Eirik Sæther @ Michael Paauwe on Nov 16, 2007 10:32 AM

I can comfirm that symantec antivirus slows down the install. Samesymptoms on my server. The same seems to be the case on clientmachines installing from the image.RegardsEirik SaetherWellinnovationNorway

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Martin Stokes Nov 7, 2007 6:47 AM
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Are you using the Installation Manager? I did ours using the command prompt (msiexec /a etc...) and it only took about 30 mins onto a network share. 6 hours to create an admin image is crazy....

Regards

Martin
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- Michael Paauwe @ Martin Stokes on Nov 7, 2007 6:46 PM
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  Yes, that was using the installation manger that autoruns when you install the DVD.
  In the end it took 8.5 hours and appears to have finished without error. I have yet to try an install from this image though.
  Regards,
  Mike
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  - Brian Hughes @ Michael Paauwe on Nov 8, 2007 3:35 AM
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    I recently created an admin image on a P4 3 Ghz w/ 1 GB RAM on a USB HD with 100 GB free.
    
    It took about 8 hours. This includes about 6 hours of downloading before creating the admin image on the external HD.
    
    I did 3 machines at the same time, including the machine serving the admin image and it took about 45 to finish everything up. (ie Activating COSMOS.)
    
    It took me about 10 hours, 6 hours one day and 2 another and 2 another day to get a 6 workstation lab up and running. I was able to install SolidWorks Office Premium including COSMOSWorks Advanced Professional and COSMOSFloWorks on three machines via the Stand Alone installation method and a fourth I used to create an Admin Image.
    
    The three standalone installs downloaded the 4.7 GB of media and installed in about 4 hours. The admin image took about 6 hours. Though I left before it was done installing the admin image to the HD. It was completed downloading however.
    
    All machines are P4 3GHz with 1 GB of RAM. Windows XP. SolidWorks 2008 SP 0.1
    
    The lack of progress display is bothersome, just a list of files scrolling would definately alleviate the "What's going on with this thing?!?!" feeling.
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Martin Stokes Nov 8, 2007 6:57 AM
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Wow - looks like I'll stick to using the command line to create admin images...

Regards

Martin
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Daniel Hogsett Nov 8, 2007 9:28 PM
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I've created an image twice and it only took about 30-40 minutes. One thing to try. Copy your DVD to your hard drive and install from there. That is what I did.

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Michael Paauwe Nov 8, 2007 9:33 PM
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The culprit was Symantec antivirus.
Our IT department has it locked so that it cannot be disabled so I got permission to temporarily uninstall the antivirus software and what do you know. The admin image took 20 mins installing from DVD to network location.
So be warned. Antivirus software can increase the install time by 25 times!
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- Eirik Sæther @ Michael Paauwe on Nov 16, 2007 10:32 AM
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  I can comfirm that symantec antivirus slows down the install. Samesymptoms on my server. The same seems to be the case on clientmachines installing from the image.RegardsEirik SaetherWellinnovationNorway
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