Re: new boot disk?
On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 08:41:06PM +0000, john gennard wrote:
> On Thursday 11 January 2001 5:08 am, James W. Lindenschmidt wrote:
> > Greetings, everyone.
> >
> > I just migrated from RedHat over to Debian potato and I'm thrilled
> > so far.
> >
> > But, I think my boot disk is defective, since it takes 5-7 minutes
> > for the
> >
...
> This was a problem I encountered when first installing Slink. It also
> occurs when I first installed Potato. What gives a dramatic
> improvement in booting speed for me is to re-compile the kernel
> (#make config, #make dep, #make clean, and #make bzdisk).
> Up to now, I've always booted from floppies and kernels as supplied
> are not quite what I need so recompiling is desirable.
>
> My booting time now is to the order of 40secs - on first install it
> was similar to your experience (just over 6mins).
You could also try to use lilo's compact option.
--
groetjes, carel
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