In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/11/01 at 09:43 AM, D-Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 12:08:55AM -0500, 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 >| >| Loading Linux.............. >| >I suspect you are using a floppy drive ;-). Floppy drives are slow >regardless of what you do. The kernel is fairly significant in size so >it takes a while to load it. :-) True enough, a floppy is a slow device. However, I know exactly what James means. I created a boot disk during intalll of 2.2r0, and I have the same experience - it takes at least several minutes to load. While floppies are slow, this is _enormously_ slower than any other Linux boot floppy I've ever tried. A SuSE boot floppy loads in less than a minute. I haven't had time to go back and look at what I did, but I suspect that I must have done something wrong - I really can't belive that Debian would be that much slower to load than any of the other distributions when it comes to loading from a floppy. paul ----------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paul Marwick - Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, UK Marwick Computer Services - OS/2, LAN & general computer consultants -----------------------------------------------------------
