Installing Hoary on dual P2 300MHz is really slow

[Janne Jokitalo]

On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 23:09 +0200, Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 23:33 +0300, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
> > I'd really use some help concerning the install of Hoary on a dual P2
> > 300MHz machine. It seems that the install begins correctly, but
> > progresses very slowly after a few procedures next to choosing what type
> > of install you want. To be strict, it seems slow down when 'Creating
> > initial device nodes...'.
> > 
> > It seems it has to do with ACPI, as the motherboard is really old
> > (dating back to 1997/1998), and probably with DMA. I'm not familiar with
> > the architecture of this type of processor/bus systems, but I've done
> > quite a bit of googling and from what I understand, the problem should
> > be fixed by entering commands 'acpi=off apic' and possibly 'idebus=66'
> > or the appropriate bus speed number anyway, but nothing helps for this
> > system.
> 
>   Have you checked the kernel logs ? Any error ?

Hello Yannick,

to be frank, I find that quite hard since I cannot wait for the system
to install all the way thru. Once I had the patience to wait for the
installation dialogs to pop up. That took, I believe, 1.2 hours. :)

But, in my ignorance I may not be looking this at the right angle. Can
you point me to the right direction; meaning, how to look at such if the
system isn't installed yet?


Thanks a bunch!


-- 
Jaska