Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 22:03:04 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> To: robert Backhaus <robbakfreebsd@yahoo.co.uk> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very slow install from CDROM Message-ID: <20020813050305775.AAA349@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com> In-Reply-To: <20020813044755.91037.qmail@web12903.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20020813034800489.AAA346@empty1.ekahuna.com@dyn205.ekahuna.com>
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On 12 Aug 2002 at 21:47, robert Backhaus boldly uttered: > --- "Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist@ekahuna.com> wrote: > > > > > > Trying to install on a P200-MMX (Compaq Deskpro >>>> 4000) with a Creative Labs ~24x CDROM and 540MB Western Digital >>>> HD. (I know, it's small, but I'm just doing the minimal install) > How is the CD-ROM drive, and is the disk a poor burn? > stable reading? I've had cd-roms that take three or > four tries to read every bit. Could be the drive I suppose, I don't have much experience with it, but I can say it seems to work fine on other CDs, and it boots fine from the 4.6-RC2 disk. Only seems to be when it's copying files (CD and HD running simultaneously) when it chokes up. It's not the CD itself, as mentioned I did an install from the same CD on a SCSI-based system (NEC SCSI CDROM) and it went like blazes. I just picked up a 6GB Maxtor HD from someone 15 mins ago and am going to put it in the system and see what happens. Something is very strange here beyond the speed issue, because the install fails in various ways eventually anyway. Either it gets some kind of coredump, or says "can't copy kernel to /" or somesuch, and there appears to be plenty of disk space. Knowing Compaq, wouldn't surprise me if they had some kind of weird disk controller on there that doesn't act like anyone else's. However due to the various things that have been discussed vis-a-vis the ATA driver over the last couple of months, I was just initially wondering if it was related to that. -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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