Hi, Thibaut Varene writes:
> agreed, though "it used to work". Once upon a time, the Linux kernel with all available IDE and SCSI drivers compiled in fit on a floppy disk :) > RE Jens' mail: the initrd used is the stock one, I didn't change > anything (yet). There is no stock initrd, the initrd is built to fit the system you install on. Try whether you can speed up the process by fiddling with /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf and, if you feel adventurous, with /usr/sbin/mkinitrd. Send the patches to the initrd-tools maintainer. > If you consider the fact that he switched because he was tired of > the slowlyness of MSWin (and the virus stories), boot speed is quite > a point for a "basic" user How long exactly does it take with 2.4.18-bf24 and 2.4.26? Is there a point where the system sits unusually long, seemingly doing nothing? > I thought that this "real end user experience report" might be of > any use to us kernel hackers/packagers. If it teaches us something beyond the simple fact that newer software tends to run slower on older hardware, maybe. Regards, Jens. P.S.: What is this MSWin thing, anyway? I remember switching to Debian from NetBSD, and I really enjoyed the experience :) -- J'qbpbe, le m'en fquz pe j'qbpbe! Le veux aimeb et mqubib panz je pézqbpbe je djuz tqtaj!
