Well, you're assuming he's installed already, and maybe he hasn't yet. Greg On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 07:00:31PM +0000, Georgina wrote: > Hi > > I've never experienced a computer taking 10 minutes to boot. Something is wrong here. Even when a check is forced, I wouldn't have thought that it took 10 minutes to boot. If that's what is happening, it raises the question: How are you shutting down the computer? > > Have you looked at dmesg? To see what was going on during the boot process? > > Didn't you want to boot with lilo? Is there a reason for using the floppy to boot? > > > Gena > > > > > > > > >Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:30:25 -0500 (EST) > >From: Dan Murphy <mweeby at nycap.rr.com> > >To: Speakup list <speakup at braillw.uwo.ca> > >Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond. > > > > Hello listers. > >Last week, I posted a question about partitioning a drive with Windows > >already on it, and Parted was recommended. I downloaded it from the > >speakup site and attempted to use it. Well I am now, sadly, only a little > >sadly, "parted" from my windows partition. (grin) > >I'm not going to blame the program, rather just my ineptitude and lack of > >experience. So, now that I was back to square one, and I am not certain > >whan I can get sighted assistance to reinstall the MS monster, I > >partitioned the drive in 2 parts. The first 10 G for the eventual > >Windows, and the remainder including a good size 345MB swap partition. > >for linux. I have installed Slackware 8.0 on it, but I have a few > >questions. When I go to use the installation boot disk with speakup on > >it, after I type "ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk", it loads up but it takes > >something on the order of 10 minutes to do so. > >this is a 500 MHZ Pentium 3 with 128 MB of ram. Should I rebuild the > >installation floppy, or is there something I should type differently at > >the boot prompt? > >I must say, though, it is nice to watch Linux purr along on that as > >oposed to this little P166 with only 40 MB of ram. > >Thanks, and please excuse the rambling. > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
