On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 04:16, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 08:48, - _ r a r o h _ - wrote: > > Hallo, > > > > installed woody with booting from floppy - it takes 4 minutes to read > > the floppy. I hear the movement of the floppy some 20 seconds ... > > > > Any idea how to fix ? > > 4 minutes to read a 1.44MB floppy? That was dog slow even in 1990. > > Have you looked in /var/log/syslog? Did you hear the FDD clicking > and whining like it there's a bad sector on the disk?
I've had some experience of floppy-booting Linuxes (usually until I get Grub sorted) and I found that, on a K6-2 350, Red Hat was tolerable (don't know how many seconds exactly, but not much slower than DOS). OTOH, floppy-booting Debian Woody was incredibly slow - six or seven *minutes*! But no signs of any disk read failures - just very slow overall. However, on my new box (Athlon 2000) Woody floppy-boots in maybe 15 seconds. I don't really believe the speed of floppy-booting is dependent on the CPU :) - more likely, it was some sort of incompatible drive setting (though what, I have no idea). cr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
