Re: Booting from floopy slow

1999-11-06 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy: I installed Debian slink in a second hard drive, which is hdb1 (there are hda1 to hda4), my system does not allow booting from a slave hard drive, so I use the floppy system, but it is very slow. What can I do to accelerate it? This is what I've had to do... in your /etc/lilo.conf,

Re: Booting from floopy slow

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: arodri >accelerate it? Is there any command to type that will speed it, say arodri >redirect it to hdb1? When I made the installation I also enabled booting arodri >from hard disk. boot to dos, and use loadlin, which boots linux from dos, be careful th

Re: Booting from floopy slow

1999-11-05 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 07:55:59AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > I installed Debian slink in a second hard drive, which is hdb1 (there > are hda1 to hda4), my system does not allow booting from a slave hard > drive, so I use the floppy system, but it is very slow. What can I do to > accelerate

Booting from floopy slow

1999-11-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I installed Debian slink in a second hard drive, which is hdb1 (there are hda1 to hda4), my system does not allow booting from a slave hard drive, so I use the floppy system, but it is very slow. What can I do to accelerate it? Is there any command to type that will speed it, say redirect it to hdb