From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 23 03:52:38 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 BCD7116A41F for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:52:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kkrizka@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55EDB43D46 for ; Tue, 23 Aug 2005 03:52:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kkrizka@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i22so114381wra for ; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:52:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=YcCA1LT++SuZZ0ALW3u0U2S9N611DbYukkqNhgY05kMVraJDBA1hDPI9aI+bv2S++8YP0vhdRD/smgyz9nSqBsjGrc+qjZt5usIEp31RyKLKHIhm60UhJ8ZOHgvUhsi1N+HNbN2NC1KvWXmdyuiLAUTCJIakzWrWzWkxM8XJv+I= Received: by 10.54.112.7 with SMTP id k7mr4303710wrc; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.7.24 with HTTP; Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 20:52:33 -0700 From: Karol Krizka To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200508230525.20845@harrymail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <200508230525.20845@harrymail> 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 03:52:38 -0000 On 8/22/05, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Am Dienstag, 23. August 2005 05:09 CEST schrieb Karol Krizka: > > 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? >=20 > Hmm, I can't see any reason for that symptom, have never heard before and > can't verify that, but I'd suggested to disable ACPI and see if that > helps. Often you get old hardware with broken ACPI BIOS implementations, > and I guess you won't find a standard compliant update for a 200Mhz > anything (guessing i386) CPU! > So try to set 'hint.acpi.0.disabled=3D1' in /boot/loader.conf > If that helps, please provide feedback, then probably your BIOS has to be > blacklisted, so nobody else has to run into the same problem. >=20 When the cd's boot loader asked me what to do, I pressed 1. I was thinking about disabling the ACPI too, but when I saw another option was "Enabled ACPI" I figured that it is disabled by default. I think it might be as scott said in the other email that i's reading from cdrom. It is a 52x cdrom, but I assume that the slow cpu has trouble with it no matter how fast it is. --=20 Cheers, Karol Krizka Fun Game-> http://www.hobowars.com/182837/