On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, sandeep vijayakumar<sandy_711@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I downloaded the FEL live DVD yesterday, and tried it on my laptop, but > unfortunately found it to be too slow. It took a long time to boot from the > DVD. Any ideas.suggestions on how to improve the speed? Live CD/DVD is supposed to take time to boot even if you have a lot of RAM and a high speed processor. The whole OS is read from the DVD and loaded to RAM and then the OS runs from RAM. This reading and loading of data from DVD to RAM takes a lot of time as compared to loading an OS from hard disc since CD/DVD drive is slow device, about 10MBps (Hard disc can be as fast as 100 MBps or more) . So it is natural that it will take time to boot. Once the OS is loaded, it will run smoothly if you have more than 1 GB of RAM. If RAM is less than that, it will be a bit sluggish but will still run. P.S: You should not use the EDA tools in live mode because all your changes will be lost. It is better to install it on your hard disc and then use them. -- Regards Rangeen Basu Roy Chowdhury Fedora Ambassador sherry151@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Fedora-electronic-lab-list mailing list Fedora-electronic-lab-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-electronic-lab-list
