Thanks, I will look out for the BIOS settings, but I do not hold out much hope
because, as I said,
PHAT Linux and UMSDOS based Slackware run perfectly well as does (gulp) Windows 95.
Mandrake just seems like a nice system to use if I can.
I will hunt around in the PHAT rc,d area to see if there are any optimisations
included there
Mike
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On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:25:19 +0000, you wrote:
>I am new to Linux Mandrake 7.0 but have had a fair amount of experience
>with Slackware and Suse, which I use on dedicated Linux machines.
>
>Howeve, I want to put a version of Linux on a Win 95 box and do not want
>to use a UMSDOS system. I have tried using Lnx4win to create a Normal
>installation on a 1.2GB root and a 64MB swapfile on a P200 with 64MB of
>RAM . The installation itself was VERY slow, taking over 8 hrs to
>complete from the CD. However, much worse than that, the Linux system
Sounds like you have a hardware problem rather than anything inherent
in Mandrake. 8 hours is not a normal install...period.
>runs very slowly indeed as far as disc access is concerned, much slower
>than a UMSDOS installation of Slackware which I have also tried.
Slow install...slow disk access...hardware problem.
>I have tried using PHAT Linux which is, I believe, based on an earlier
>version of Mandrake and it is much faster with disc accesses (an order
>of magnitude or more). What do I need to do to speed Mandrake up to be
>the same as PHAT?
Suggest looking at your hardware. Could be a configuration setting
in your bios...could be an irq conflict...could be a flacky IDE
controler chip on your board. Could be flakey memory.
Dennis
