on Mon, Feb 25, 2002, debianlist ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I boot my DEbian 2.2R4 using floppy,but the process is very > slow..at least much slower than other linux distr...how can i > improve the speed based on boot by floopy...(there is no hardware > problem) i have a 2.2r4 boot floppy,,can i boot 2.2r5?
What type of boot floppies are you comparing?
There are several distinct types of boot floppy:
- A LILO MBR on floppy pointing to a kernel and root partition on hard
disk. This will boot nearly as fast as an HR LILO configuration.
Other boot methods may be used, e.g.: syslinux, LOADLIN.EXE.
- A kernel image. This loads a kernel image from floppy but (usually)
mounts a hard drive.
- A rescue disk, usually with a kernel and/or minimal root filesystem,
e.g.: Tom's Root Boot.
Floppy access is *slow*. If you're reading significant data from disk,
be prepared to wait 20 seconds to a minute. My boot kernel is 578 KiB
on disk, about 40% the capacity of a floppy, a good chunk of data.
Peace.
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