Installing Hoary on dual P2 300MHz is really slow

[Yannick Le Saint (kyncani)]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 00:15 +0300, Janne Jokitalo wrote:
> 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 ?
> 
> 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?

  Well, i don't have an install cd right now, but i think during the
install you can get access to a root shell with Alt-f2 and then just
type "dmesg" to see the kernel logs.

-- 
Yannick Le Saint (kyncani) <y.lesaint at gmail.com>
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