Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2358 mails)

[samelash@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Samy Elashmawy)]

At 02:22 PM 10/27/1999 GMT, 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...
>
>50 minutes??  My 486-33DX boots the stock kernel from the hard drive

Typo roghly 5 to 10 minutes .

>in about 4 minutes.  However, when I load it from a diskette it does
>take quite a long time - but certainly not 50 minutes!

Last time I recomlied on it  , was 5.3 and it only had 8 meg ram , Took
about 8 hrs or so for a complete compile , you know where ot does all the
obj , after cleaning the old stuff out. Best to start it before leaving wor
, come in the next morning see of ti worked or choked. After a week of this
, I gave up oon it and  went back to stock kernal.

I was wondering how much diffreence it would makew  now that it has 20 meg
of ram. Would bee nice to trim down the lkernal. Other option is to do it
on another machine and move the kernal over. 

Got to get ti to boot firts.

>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...
>>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.
>
>Good luck!
>
>
>--
>Stuart Hall
>Cheshire, Connecticut, USA
>Linux User# 141732
>


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