7 Sep
1999
7 Sep
'99
9:20 a.m.
On 06-Sep-99 Ashley T. Howes wrote:
On Sunday I was given a Debian 2.1 CD (thanks Andrew) which I have been playing with today. I have a few questions I hope the group can answer:
- I boot my system using a boot floppy, however the boot floppy takes ages
to load (about 3-4 minutes) and seems to only be accessing the floppy drive once every 30 seconds. Any idea what is causing this delay? Once the floppy access stops, the main Linux boot process flies along as normal.
Caldera boot disks do the same. But Slackware is much faster: you get a steady ticking from the floppy drive and the whole thing takes about 30 secs to load.
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