From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jan 26 18:30: 6 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 6276737B400; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:30:00 -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 SAA12342; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:18:48 -0800 (PST) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 18:18:47 -0800 (PST) From: Annelise Anderson To: John Baldwin Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, qa@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New cdboot ISO available In-Reply-To: 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 Thu, 10 Jan 2002, John Baldwin wrote: > A new experimental CD bootstrap was recently added to -stable for the i386 > architecture that allows the full contents of the CD to be used when booting. I used the RC1 cdboot to install FreeBSD in vmware on my ASUS Thunder K7 running win2k. It worked fine although it was very slow to boot (even after recompiling the kernel, it's slow). Slow is 20 or 30 minutes....I have no clue about why this is the case, but I assume once installed, it doesn't matter how it got there. I gave the virtual machine 256MB RAM and highest possible priority and it runs nicely once it succeeds in booting--quick kernel compile, and it built the locate database for 700MB of stuff in about 20 seconds. 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