Re: Rescue disk is SLOW to load
On 26 Aug, Mike Roberts wrote:
> I and a friend both have the same problem on our older 386 machines -
> the resue disk for hamm takes about 15 to 20 minutes to load the root
> filesystem and the kernel image. These same floppies work just fine
> on newer systems. We've both already completed the installs, but why
> does it take so long? Granted, the processors are slower, but we
> didn't see this problem with 1.3.
>
Which rescue disk? Are you using "resc1440-fast.bin" or
"resc1440.bin"? The "resc1440.bin" is known to be atrociously slow,
but safe. "resc1440-fast.bin" is *much* faster at loading.
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Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux
Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College
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