Back from the "parted" beyond. (f

[Georgina]

Hi

I've never experienced a computer taking 10 minutes to boot.  Something is wrong here.  Even when a check is forced, I wouldn't have thought that it took 10 minutes to boot.  If that's what is happening, it raises the question:  How are you shutting down the computer?

Have you looked at dmesg?  To see what was going on during the boot process?

Didn't you want to boot with lilo?  Is there a reason for using the floppy to boot?


Gena



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>Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 10:30:25 -0500 (EST)
>From: Dan Murphy <mweeby at nycap.rr.com>
>To: Speakup list <speakup at braillw.uwo.ca>
>Subject: Back from the "parted" beyond.
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> Hello listers.
>Last week, I posted a question about partitioning a drive with Windows
>already on it, and Parted was recommended.  I downloaded it from the
>speakup site and attempted to use it.  Well I am now, sadly, only a little
>sadly, "parted" from my windows partition.  (grin)
>I'm not going to blame the program, rather just my ineptitude and lack of
>experience.  So, now that I was back to square one, and I am not certain
>whan I can get sighted assistance to reinstall the MS monster, I
>partitioned the drive in 2 parts.  The first 10 G for the eventual
>Windows, and the remainder including a good size 345MB swap partition.
>for linux.  I have installed Slackware 8.0 on it, but I have a few
>questions.  When I go to use the installation boot disk with speakup on
>it, after I type "ramdisk speakup_synth=dtlk", it loads up but it takes
>something on the order of 10 minutes to do so.
>this is a 500 MHZ Pentium 3 with 128 MB of ram.  Should I rebuild the
>installation floppy, or is there something I should type differently at
>the boot prompt?
>I must say, though, it is nice to watch Linux purr along on that as
>oposed to this little P166 with only 40 MB of ram.
>Thanks, and please excuse the rambling.
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