Notes client Install Experience

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

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This is only kind of an answer to the install time, but it might help you get some bounds and make a better estimate of the install time. Having installed Notes R8.x on lots of different machines, the most limiting factor that I have seen thus far is the drive access, not the processor or RAM. There is a ton of disk access going on and a slow or very full drive can make the install process painful.

Typically, on a modern machine with a decent single drive, install times are about 10 minutes from a local install executable. However, just last week, I waited 1.5 hours for an install to complete and I could hear the drive thrashing horribly the entire time.

Feedback response number WEBB84WQCR created by ~Andy Zekponecheklen on 04/27/2010