floppy too slow during bootup

["Fethi A. Okyar" <afo@or219a.e1.iit.edu>]

I am wondering why in the world does my floppy get
sooo slow while its reading the kernle image during
a boot process??

It takes approximately 5-6 minutes until it finishes
just reading the kernel image and then bang!! 2 seconds
to decompress it.

Are there any parameters that I have to tweak when I
get the boot: mesage, so that I can speed the process?


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Fethi Okyar
Research Assistant
Computational Solid Mechanics 
MMAE Department, IIT
Chicago, IL 60616-3793

e-mail:  afo@or219a.iit.edu 
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