On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 06:14:18PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > When installing 4.5 on an ALIX (see dmesg below) the
ALIX is a good choice! > phase of actually untar'ing the tgz sets was very slow: > sets became -stalled- even if untared from local disk (pre-downloaded). I suppose you use an CF-card with about x133 speed. I had the same problem. After using a card with at least x233 speed I didn't have that problem when untaring anymore. > The installation (sans X) took about an hour because of that. And you will wait ages when untaring and compiling the kernel ... > it was even async, which makes me curious about the install slowness. > Could the card or the exact mount options be the cause of that? The card. > I am not trying to tweak the machine in any way to become 'faster'; > once installed, it runs just fine. I just don't want to spend an hour > waiting for the tgz's to untar on the next reinstall. The hardware in itself is fast enogh -- it's only the poor I/O that slows everything down. > wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ELITE PRO CF CARD 4GB> Better spend your money for a fast 2 GB card than for a slow 4 GB. -- t.walkow...@wallstreet-online.de
