On 25-Jul-98 I wrote:
When I get the SIMM bay fixed I'm looking forward to running Linux on this baby: at present it takes 30 minutes to boot, 10 minutes to login, and 20 minutes to shut down!
Actually, while that did happen, it was really (I think) due to the fact that the post-install srcipts hadn't run. ___ I think I fell into your trap for the unwary: When it says something like "SuSE must now start some scripts. These scripts will start in one minute. You get a log on VT9, etc.", the message ends with ___________ "Press Return to continue" with a blinking cursor waiting for input. So you do that, because you want it to continue to complete the installation (i.e. run the scripts or whatever) since that is what you have already been doing all the way through the installation (i.e. press Return to "Continue"). However, doing that appears to abort the scripts. Next time round I left it alone, it duly completed its scripts and put up the boot prompt allowing login etc, and I did not have to "Press Return to continue" at all! I think you need to modify this prompt from YaST, because it is very misleading (and I'm not new to S.u.S.E. either!). Maybe something like "Press Return to abort running of scripts; otherwise do nothing, and wait for them to complete" (Though still slow in 4MB, because of the swapping, it's now only 4 min boot, 30 sec login, and 3 min shutdown, compared with the above). Best wishes, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> Date: 25-Jul-98 Time: 14:37:56 -------------------------------------------------------------------- - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e