From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 11 2:21:41 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns2.wananchi.com (mail.wananchi.com [62.8.64.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E3137B405 for ; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 02:21:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wash by ns2.wananchi.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1) id 15rc1B-000KIe-00; Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:20:41 +0300 Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 12:20:41 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington To: "FreeBSD Questions @ FreeBSD.org" Cc: gautham.ganapathy@wipro.com Subject: Re: Slow Installation Message-ID: <20011011122041.J32562@ns2.wananchi.com> Mail-Followup-To: Odhiambo Washington , "FreeBSD Questions @ FreeBSD.org" , gautham.ganapathy@wipro.com References: <026101c1520b$49777d10$d702a8c0@GAUTHAM> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="veXX9dWIonWZEC6h" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <026101c1520b$49777d10$d702a8c0@GAUTHAM> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.22.1i X-Disclaimer: Any views expressed in this message,where not explicitly attributed otherwise, are mine alone!. X-Fortune: Chicken Little was right. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RC i386 X-Mailer: Mutt http://www.mutt.org/ X-Designation: Systems Administrator, Wananchi Online Ltd. X-Location: Nairobi, KE, East Africa. X-Uptime: 12:19PM up 5 days, 22 mins, 5 users, load averages: 0.19, 0.15, 0.10 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --veXX9dWIonWZEC6h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * Gautham Ganapathy [20011011 07:15]: writing= on the subject 'Slow Installation' | Hi |=20 | 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 th= ere | any way of speeding it up. I have and Athlon 850,8GB hdd and 256 MB RAM You did not tell us which install method you're using? FTP, CD-ROM, NFS???? -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Wananchi Online Ltd., wash@wananchi.com 1st Flr Loita Hse. Tel: 254 2 313985 Loita Street., Fax: 254 2 313922 PO Box 10286,00100-NAIROBI,KE Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity towar= d a=20 definite, coherent heterogeneity.=20 -Herbert Spencer, "First Principles"=20 (contributed by Chris Johnston)=20 --veXX9dWIonWZEC6h Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7xWRpn7LIsuxjem8RAr2xAKCm0kKEj8Q0j/0sDK8mHmOwUybUWQCgoL5X 2J1mjoLw9yaRrW6WWfNhm+w= =+Gft -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --veXX9dWIonWZEC6h-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message