I can't say for sure as I haven't booted anything other than a HD
installed Arch Linux on my laptop for a long time but I can't recall
anything like as long as what I'm currently getting on both my laptop
and PC. I will download another liveCD to compare it.<br>
<br>
Whether it matters or not... strictly... no. However I have a 1GB flash
drive that I have absolutely no use for and decided I wanted to setup
a linux distro on that so I didn't have to put up with windows if I
didn't need to on other machines :P It's also fine with the delayed
boot time as it won't obviously be my primary OS, would just be nice to
get rid of if at all possible :D<br>
<br>
Interesting fact: udevtrigger grinding to a halt doesn't happen the
first time I boot the laptop that day. I'm sure there's a hotplugging
joke to make here somewhere if my brain would just get in gear.<br>
If it wasn't that it did the same on my PC then I'd guess at an ACPI problem...<br>
<br>
Thanks for the reply, I was considering trying Slack in place of Arch
when I get around to clearing out my PC and laptop (hopefully in the
next few days) I'll probably have more questions to pester you with :P<br>
<br>
Nistur<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, Johnš <<a href="mailto:seago.john@googlemail.com" target="_blank">seago.john@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Monday 30 June 2008 Nistur <<a href="mailto:nistur@googlemail.com" target="_blank">nistur@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Has anyone had any experience with Slax? Or knows what might be causing<br>
> this?<br>
<br>
I'll deal with the second question first, no I'm afraid that I don't know what<br>
might be the cause.<br>
<br>
As to the first part of your question I have had some small experience with<br>
Slax, ( I have been a Slackware user since Windows 95 crashed on me just once<br>
too often, Slackware 7 I seem to recall), it always seems to take a long time<br>
to boot to the point where one can log in and use it. (A test shows at least<br>
two and a half minutes on my machine (Intel Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz). When I<br>
bought my daughter a Laptop without an OS recently, I used Slax to see if the<br>
hardware all worked with GNU/Linux, and it seemed to take forever on that, at<br>
least 5 to six minutes. Have you tried any other 'live' Distro's, are they any<br>
quicker? It could be that Slax is just slow in loading, if you are prepared to<br>
run comparative tests it may be useful to run some of the smaller live CD<br>
versions in the 200 Mb range for comparison.<br>
<br>
Does it really matter if it works? Sorry not to be of anymore help.<br>
<br>
<br>
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