Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 15:33:21 -0400 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+FreeBSD@luomat.peak.org> Cc: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net>, freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Major hardware reorganization... Message-ID: <35896B81.D140985A@aei.ca> References: <3.0.5.32.19980618064338.007f1100@mx.serv.net> <199806181637.MAA27806@luomat.peak.org>
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Timothy J Luoma wrote: > > Author: Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net> > Original-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 1998 06:43:38 -0700 > Message-ID: <3.0.5.32.19980618064338.007f1100@mx.serv.net> > > > Win95 is the only OS that supports all my hardware, and for > > certain operations is the fastest (it definitely boots the quickest > > of the 3 OS's, BSD second, Win NT third) > > Well Win95 should reboot fast, given all the the times it has to reboot (not > a flame, just a fact.... many/most changes under Win95 require a reboot to > update the system). > > BSD does take quite awhile to boot... I wonder how much of it might be > trimmed down if a custom kernel was built to the specifics of only what > hardware was on the machine. > > TjL I have made my cusom kernel. Its pretty easy and it take a few minutes when you know how to(maybe five!). If you dont know how, take one hour with the doc reading and error ;-) Ok, when you boot with the GENERIC kernel, freebsd use a lot of time to find all hardware that does'nt exist and waste 15-20 second on a scsi timout or something like that. When you remove all those scsi thing or than you customize it, it take *less* than my win95 to boot! Remember than win95 seems speedy because there is a beautiful win95.bmp presented to you ;-) Malartre -- -------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD-2.2.6 -------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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