From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Jan 28 1:45:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from andrsn.stanford.edu (andrsn.Stanford.EDU [171.66.112.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3004537B402 for ; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:45:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (andrsn@localhost.stanford.edu [127.0.0.1]) by andrsn.stanford.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id BAA18180; Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:34:23 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 01:34:23 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: Makoto Matsushita Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available In-Reply-To: <20020127233016E.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Makoto Matsushita wrote: > > andrsn> I used the RC1 cdboot to install FreeBSD in vmware on my ASUS > andrsn> Thunder K7 running win2k. It worked fine although it was very > andrsn> slow to boot (even after recompiling the kernel, it's slow). > andrsn> Slow is 20 or 30 minutes....I have no clue about why this is > andrsn> the case, but I assume once installed, it doesn't matter how > andrsn> it got there. > > (I suppose your VMware's version is 3.0) > > What's happen if you change your VMware's BIOS configuration, to > disable DMA disk access? > I looked at the VMWare BIOS and it seems to have no option for disabling DMA access. However it was VMWare version 2, no longer boots, and I can't seem to repeat the reinstalling trick (although I did it twice); so guess I'll try VMWare 3. Annelise -- Annelise Anderson Author of: FreeBSD: An Open-Source Operating System for Your PC Available from: BSDmall.com and amazon.com Book Website: http://www.bittreepress.com/FreeBSD/introbook/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message