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Date:      Thu, 11 Oct 2001 00:34:24 -0400
From:      "Denny Jodeit" <denny@jodeit.com>
To:        <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Slow Installation
Message-ID:  <002501c1520e$017725d0$6f830acf@gdennyj>
References:  <026101c1520b$49777d10$d702a8c0@GAUTHAM> <OE73yxdZjfNLnlyg35s0000d678@hotmail.com>

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> > Hi
> >
> > Installation of freebsd seems to take very long on my system. The base
> > installation (300M) had to be left overnight for it to be complete. Is
> there
> > any way of speeding it up. I have and Athlon 850,8GB hdd and 256 MB RAM
> >
> > Regards
> > Gautham
> >
> >
> In my pentium 200 MMX with a 24x cdrom it last between 10 - 20 minutes,
> something is wrong with your machine.
>


not necessarily.......if the installation in question is an FTP installation
and the path to the FTP server chosen is slow, this is not uncommon


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