From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 12 1:41:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.networkone.net (mail.networkone.net [209.144.112.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69DE114D32 for ; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 01:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from reader@newsguy.com) Received: (qmail 644 invoked from network); 12 Sep 1999 08:41:22 -0000 Received: from pm3-4-41.la.networkone.net (HELO satellite.local.lan) (reader@209.144.126.233) by mail.networkone.net with SMTP; 12 Sep 1999 08:41:22 -0000 Received: (from reader@localhost) by satellite.local.lan (8.9.3/8.9.1) id BAA02047; Sun, 12 Sep 1999 01:41:16 -0700 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Slow install From: Harry Putnam Date: 12 Sep 1999 00:08:26 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.070096 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.96) Emacs/20.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 5 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What process are going on during an install that cause it to be so slow, compared to Linux. It seems to take days to move and install a few hundred MB of data. I'd say it was the machine (Pentium 200) except it flies through 400+ MB when installing RedHat Linux in about 10 minutes. Version 3.2 of FreeBSD is taking over an hour. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message