On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:41:06PM +0000, john gennard wrote: > On Thursday 11 January 2001 5:08 am, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote: > > Greetings, everyone. > > > > I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled > > so far. > > > > But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes > > for the > > ... > This was a problem I encountered when first installing Slink. It also > occurs when I first installed Potato. What gives a dramatic > improvement in booting speed for me is to re-compile the kernel > (#make config, #make dep, #make clean, and #make bzdisk). > Up to now, I've always booted from floppies and kernels as supplied > are not quite what I need so recompiling is desirable. > > My booting time now is to the order of 40secs - on first install it > was similar to your experience (just over 6mins).
You could also try to use lilo's compact option. -- groetjes, carel
