Re: SLOW boot disk?

[Jens Ritter <jens@hilbert.weh.rwth-aachen.de>]

"Hogland, Thomas E." <HoglandTE@alyeska-pipeline.com> writes:

> Curiosity question here: I dual-boot Debian and Win95 by using a boot disk
> for Debian (it's partition is the last 1.2GB on a 6.4GB disk, so LILO
> doesn't like booting it). The book disk takes a LONG time to boot - 2 or 3
> minutes just to do the initial load, then it starts loading off the HD and
> everything flies... I just created a boot disk during the install, same as
> on another PC I use, but the home one is slow, while the work one is nice
> and fast... Any ideas? 

This is because we use the -s (== slow, stupid, _safe_) option on
them, because we wanted the discs to boot on every PC. 
There is a resc1440-fast.bin disk image in the disks-i386
directory. Try it.

Jens

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