DSL running slowlyForum: Laptops Topic: DSL running slowly started by: Jens Posted by Jens on May 01 2005,14:12
Hello folks,I downloaded DSL, which really seems to be a nice distribution. My Laptop (Siemens PCD-4ND) has a SCSI-Cd-ROM attached to the dockingstation - however the BIOS is old and doesnīt allow to boot from CD. So I decided booting via the LOADLIN-Method,which works fine. However - itīs running relatively slow - is that normal on this specification? Or could I make it running faster? (The partition where DSL is located is FAT16) Regards Jens Posted by skaos on May 02 2005,11:28
If you already haven't done it, a hard disk install should make it a bit faster: < http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/talk/node/64 >You need to repartition your disk. The following assumes that you don't mind wiping the disk. If you don't have a dos boot diskette, download one from < http://www.bootdisk.com/, > start ms-dos fdisk, delete all partitions and create a new 60 MB partition. Copy the 50 MB knoppix file to c:\knoppix and boot as you did before, and then follow the instructions in the link above. Create a 32-40 MB swap partition and the rest of free space as a linux partition (you need at least 120 MB). Posted by Jens on May 02 2005,17:42
Hey skaos,thanks a lot for your answer. Do you have any idea, of how much itīll fasten DSL? Because when I said itīs running "relatively slow" I better should have said "it works, but is not really usable at all". Regards Jens Posted by skaos on May 03 2005,11:10
First I should say something I forgot yesterday: does the scsi CD drive require win/dos driver(s) to operate? If so, make sure that you take backups (and to be doubly sure, make a dos boot diskette with the drivers to see if you can access the drive) - you may end up not beeing able to access the drive after repartitionning the drive.I don't know how much faster it will be. I'm not quite sure, but my impression is that the live CD uses some of the memory as a ram disk (and as your PC only have 20 MB, this probably is the biggest bottleneck). Secondly, the live CD has to access a slow CD drive and on top of that, it has to decompress whatever it reads from the CD. A quesstimate is that it would be 2-3-4 times faster. Posted by skaos on May 04 2005,09:46
You could also take a look at the following thread to get an idea about speed: < http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....;t=5489 > |