Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[rost0005@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Robert Alexander Stragies)]

On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Stuart Hall wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Oct 1999 09:10:00 +0000, you wrote:
> 
> >My 486/DX66 W 20 meg tam only comes in at 2.? mogobips . 
> >Takes about 50 minutes just to boot up the stock 6.2 kernal .
> >Very slow compared to todays low end macjines ire K6-2 300 ect...

when i hit the turboswitch and reboot, mine also comes in at 2.7... bogos,
and is DEADSLOW then too.

> 
> 50 minutes??  My 486-33DX boots the stock kernel from the hard drive
> in about 4 minutes.  However, when I load it from a diskette it does
> take quite a long time - but certainly not 50 minutes!

i also have a dx33 and it also only takes about 4 min.. he may not have
enabled "compact" in the lilo setup , without that , mine also takes +-15
minutes. and the combo of Turbo and "compact" may well make his 50 minutes

> 
> Or are you talking about re-compiling a kernel??  I haven't tried that
> with the 486 - I usually use my dual pentium to create the custom
> kernel, then NFS it over to my /boot directory.
> 
> >
> >Anyway they are still good for print server , firewalls , routers , ect...

that's my point, i am going through all this pain, because i want the 486
to be a firewall, webserver, an mailserver... And i'm leaving problem
after problem behind me... I love my linuxi

> >Just takes time for them to do anything load bearing. I trashed the os ,
> >and now need to rreinstall it , there goes an hour and a half minimume . Oh
> >well , at least it doesent crash , and its usable. 
> 
> Well, if your machine takes that long to boot up, perhaps something is
> wrong with it?  Also, it shouldn't take more than 1 hour to get
> *everything* setup on your trashed machine.  Probably even less if you
> have a backup copy of you /etc directory.
> 
backups of /etc/* are always handy...

> Good luck!
> 
thanks for the helpfull hints
keep it up,
                Alex

> 
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> Stuart Hall
> Cheshire, Connecticut, USA
> Linux User# 141732
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