On Mon, 25 Feb 2002, debianlist 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?
I don't think this is anything Debian related. I use Slackware bootdisks to image lab machines for Debian and Slackware. I find that on some machines (these are all Pentium class Digital machines), the time to load the ramdisk takes too long (I'm guessing about >2min, I generally go away and do something else). On other machines (usually earlier machines) the time taken to load a ramdisk is good. Perhaps is has more to with the interaction between the floppy drive controller and the kernel. Oh yeah, I also do this on more modern machines too (OEM). IIRC, the time taken on those is reasonable too, mostly. Notice that syslinux has an option (-s, IIRC), to create a ``stupid, but portable'' version, which is slower, which makes me think it _might_ be a kernel/controller issue. Perhaps playing with some of the floppy boot-time parameters might help. See bootparam(7) for more info. Cameron Kerr -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/~cameronk/
