From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 31 02:58:28 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 ECB7D16A41F for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:58:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kkrizka@gmail.com) Received: from xproxy.gmail.com (xproxy.gmail.com [66.249.82.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A68543D4C for ; Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:58:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kkrizka@gmail.com) Received: by xproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id h32so102859wxd for ; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:27 -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=UiLxvfAHRx0EFDLUb80g7DSlwK/o6Bfqc+McyE0tpHJ0uzwT8A7SSYAHwp1KSrRNGCkzeFb4v42zPmx9CuQY1cLNVJ0N06x2sQdzclvATeaBBk5U55XotAtc+xGGhB+KzNpiPGNDKVUdoca4dEWIMKQeUT9PZrnYucIudlEPCA4= Received: by 10.70.57.3 with SMTP id f3mr40023wxa; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.70.57.20 with HTTP; Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 19:58:27 -0700 From: Karol Krizka To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: 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: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 02:58:29 -0000 On 8/22/05, Karol Krizka wrote: > 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 pu= t > > > 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 a= nd > > 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 I never figured what the problem was but NetBSD runs quite fastish. Thank you for all your help. >=20 > --=20 > Cheers, > Karol Krizka >=20 > Fun Game-> http://www.hobowars.com/182837/ >=20 --=20 Cheers, Karol Krizka Fun Game-> http://www.hobowars.com/182837/