On 26 Aug, Mike Roberts wrote: > I and a friend both have the same problem on our older 386 machines - > the resue disk for hamm takes about 15 to 20 minutes to load the root > filesystem and the kernel image. These same floppies work just fine > on newer systems. We've both already completed the installs, but why > does it take so long? Granted, the processors are slower, but we > didn't see this problem with 1.3. >
Which rescue disk? Are you using "resc1440-fast.bin" or "resc1440.bin"? The "resc1440.bin" is known to be atrociously slow, but safe. "resc1440-fast.bin" is *much* faster at loading. -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
