Keith Snape wrote:
>
> I apologize for posting this message here, as its not
> FULLY SuSE related, but I'm at mind end here. I
> recently aquired a Pentium 60, with 40 Megs ram, which
> I used to take place of my old 486 DX4 100MHZ, with 8
> Megs ram. I thought that an upgrade of such, even
> with the 100mhz of the dx4 being equivilant to a P75,
> would help. I even got a 2 meg video card in the
> process, taking place of my old VGA card, which I
> havent even any idea of how much it had. To my UTTER
> suprise, I noticed when booting of the SuSE install
> disk, the new system was MUCH slower. In the 486, the
> little ansi/ascii menu's just popped up, and all,
> without thinking (too much), or blank screens. With
> the pentium, the menu's display in a choppy, blinky,
> all around messy process that takes yast around 5 mins
> to load up. (scary huh?) I was wondering if anyone
> would know if there might be a hardware conflict I
> might have missed, or if the boot disks are just
> automatically set up to act like its running on a
> crappy 386. (I figure, based on the fact it took me 4
> 1/2 hours to compile my flippin' kernel, that the
> system is running equivilant to a 386/16 (dx2 even!)).
I noticed the same thing on a 486dx2/66. I had SuSE 5.3,
and setup went pretty quick. Then I put SuSE 6.0 (install
from scratch) and it bogged like an old 386.
I don't think it's an interrupt anywhere. After the
system rebooted, it worked fine, if not just a bit
slower than before.
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