From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Oct 10 21:20:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe73.pav1.hotmail.com [64.4.30.208]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC8537B401 for ; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:20:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:20:19 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [63.100.88.16] From: "Gerardo Enrique Paredes" To: References: <026101c1520b$49777d10$d702a8c0@GAUTHAM> Subject: Re: Slow Installation Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 08:37:22 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 Disposition-Notification-To: "Gerardo Enrique Paredes" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Oct 2001 04:20:19.0169 (UTC) FILETIME=[09450D10:01C1520C] Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In my pentium 200 MMX with a 24x cdrom it last between 10 - 20 minutes, something is wrong with your machine. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gautham Ganapathy" To: "FreeBSD Questions @ FreeBSD.org" ; "FreeBSD Newbies @ FreeBSD.org" Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 10:14 PM Subject: Slow Installation > Hi > > Installation of freebsd seems to take very long on my system. The base > installation (300M) had to be left overnight for it to be complete. Is there > any way of speeding it up. I have and Athlon 850,8GB hdd and 256 MB RAM > > Regards > Gautham > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message