>>>>> "Carel" == Carel Fellinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Carel> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:41:06PM +0000, john gennard
Carel> 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 >
Carel> ...
>> 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).
Carel> You could also try to use lilo's compact option.
Or you could install just the bootblock on the floppy and boot the kernel from
your harddisk, i.e.
boot=/dev/fd0
root=/dev/hda5 (or whatever your root partition is)
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