From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 17:03:44 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A157C16A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from white.imgsrc.co.jp (ns.imgsrc.co.jp [210.226.20.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D82E43FBF for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 17:03:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuriyama@imgsrc.co.jp) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by white.imgsrc.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC47B28408D; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:03:41 +0900 (JST) Received: from black.imgsrc.co.jp (black.imgsrc.co.jp [2001:218:422:2::130]) by white.imgsrc.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD1528408B; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:03:40 +0900 (JST) Received: from black.imgsrc.co.jp (black.imgsrc.co.jp [2001:218:422:2::130]) by black.imgsrc.co.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A10B1E4A62; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:03:40 +0900 (JST) Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 10:03:40 +0900 Message-ID: <7msmk9e237.wl@black.imgsrc.co.jp> From: Jun Kuriyama To: Zhang Shu In-Reply-To: <20031127183839.058F.ZHANG@koganei.wide.ad.jp> References: <20031127183839.058F.ZHANG@koganei.wide.ad.jp> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (i386--freebsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS snapshot-20020531 cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: boot process is too slow during installation X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 01:03:44 -0000 At Thu, 27 Nov 2003 09:49:04 +0000 (UTC), Zhang Shu wrote: > I am trying to install the current-FreeBSD to my Vaio PCG-Z1/P but found > the installation boot process is extremely slow. It takes more than 10 > minutes to finish loading the disk created from kern.flp and another 10 > minutes for mfsroot.flp. Does anyone know what the problem is? > > The USB floppy drive I am using is sony's PCGA-UF05. The same thing > happens with another USB floppy drive which I don't remember the model. > > I also tried to boot the installation disks of 4.8R, 4.9R and 5.1R but > the result were the same. I haven't seen fast USB floppy drive. So I think all of USB floppy drive may be too slow... -- Jun Kuriyama // IMG SRC, Inc. // FreeBSD Project