From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 03:24:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D59016A423 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:24:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@bsdprophet.org) Received: from zappa.azrackspace.net (zappa.azrackspace.net [206.169.90.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D520A43D45 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:24:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott@bsdprophet.org) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] ident=amavis) by zappa.azrackspace.net with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1E7POa-00005G-A1; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:24:16 -0700 Received: from zappa.azrackspace.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zappa.azrackspace.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 31233-06; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:24:09 -0700 (MST) Received: from wsip-68-15-121-232.ok.ok.cox.net ([68.15.121.232] helo=[192.168.0.121]) by zappa.azrackspace.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1E7POT-000054-Ex; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:24:09 -0700 Message-ID: <430A9705.10607@bsdprophet.org> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 22:24:53 -0500 From: scott User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050721) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karol Krizka References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at zappa.azrackspace.net X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.2 tagged_above=-100.0 required=6.3 tests=AWL, BAYES_00 X-Spam-Level: Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Slow Install CD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:24:18 -0000 You are reading from your cd drive on the bootonly disc, whereas xp is installed on your HD. Karol Krizka wrote: >Hi, >I managed to come accross this old Compaq Proliant server and wanted >to try it out for a personal webserver. Since I wanted to try out BSD, >I decided to go with it as the operating system. My choice distro (or >what do you call it?) was FreeBSD because I use Gentoo Linux and it's >package system is a rip-off of FreeBSD's ports. I figured that would >be the easiest transition. > >Now, I am not totally sure which model the server is, but I know that >it has a 200Mhz cpu and 128 MB of RAM. Suprisingly after I booted it >up (after several tries) I saw the WinXP bootlogo and soon was at the >login screen. If it can run that, it can run almost anything! So I put >the bootonly bsd cd that I downloaded a couple of days ago and got it >to boot. That went well, exept there is a bit of a problem. The input >is veeery slow. I press a down arrow and have to wait a minute for it >to happen. There was no lag in the installed XP, so what might have >brough about it in BSD? > > > -- Those who admire the massive, rigid bone structures of dinosaurs should remember that jellyfish still enjoy their very secure ecological niche.