------------------- > Hi, > > Thibaut Varene writes: > > > agreed, though "it used to work". > > Once upon a time, the Linux kernel with all available IDE and SCSI > drivers compiled in fit on a floppy disk :)
heh. You can still find distros with X11 on a floppy disk ;) > > RE Jens' mail: the initrd used is the stock one, I didn't change > > anything (yet). > > There is no stock initrd, the initrd is built to fit the system you > install on. Try whether you can speed up the process by fiddling with > /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf and, if you feel adventurous, with > /usr/sbin/mkinitrd. Send the patches to the initrd-tools maintainer. Good point, will look after it. > > If you consider the fact that he switched because he was tired of > > the slowlyness of MSWin (and the virus stories), boot speed is quite > > a point for a "basic" user > > How long exactly does it take with 2.4.18-bf24 and 2.4.26? Is there a > point where the system sits unusually long, seemingly doing nothing? The main difference (the only one _really_ noticeable) stands at very early stage, when lilo loads the kernel (and the initrd now). The "Loading Linux......." dot-bar progress message that used to last a couple of seconds is now taking tens of secs. > > I thought that this "real end user experience report" might be of > > any use to us kernel hackers/packagers. > > If it teaches us something beyond the simple fact that newer software > tends to run slower on older hardware, maybe. I don't see this issue as "newer software tends to run slower on older hardware". That's more "additionnal *features* (cruft ?) makes software less responsive", imho ;) > Regards, Jens. > > P.S.: What is this MSWin thing, anyway? I remember switching to > Debian from NetBSD, and I really enjoyed the experience :) heh. I have some boxes which I really enjoyed switching to NetBSD _from_ Debian (really old & tiny hardware, [EMAIL PROTECTED], 36M RAM) ;) MSWin meant MicroSoft Windows, sorry for my unclear abbreviations. > -- > J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! > Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj! btw, what does _that_ mean ? ;) Thibaut VARENE PA/Linux ESIEE Team http://www.pateam.org/
