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Date:      Thu, 6 Jul 2000 14:36:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Richard Stanaford <rsstan@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: /etc/rc.shutdown calls local scripts now
Message-ID:  <20000706213630.16205.qmail@web3104.mail.yahoo.com>

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How bout a booting a SparcStation running Solaris 2.6 off a 1x CDROM?  When it
finally got done, I had to sit and remind myself what was wrong with it.

-Richard




--- Walter Campbell <wcampbel@botbay.net> wrote:
> > > HP/UX does something like this.  I find it rather useful, but that may be
> > > because I have boxes that take almost an hour to boot....
> > 
> > An hour to boot? Boy... the only time I ever saw a machine take an hour to
> > boot (which does not include the POST/memory check/BIOS screen) was a
> > 486SX/33 with 24MB of RAM running Windows NT 3.51 SP3. Of course it was
> > running off of a 5 1/4" 400MB SCSI hard drive too!
> 
> Try a Solaris 2.6 machine fsck'ing an array of 14 9.1 giggers
> 
> Longest I've ever seen a BSD box boot was about 10-15 minutes though,
> including fsck'ing 4 drives
> 
> 
> 
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