[dundee] Re: slax

[Nistur]

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.

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

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.
If it wasn't that it did the same on my PC then I'd guess at an ACPI
problem...

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

Nistur

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:34 PM, John¹ <seago.john at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 30 June 2008 Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone had any experience with Slax? Or knows what might be causing
> > this?
>
> I'll deal with the second question first, no I'm afraid that I don't know
> what
> might be the cause.
>
> As to the first part of your question I have had some small experience with
> Slax, ( I have been a Slackware user since Windows 95 crashed on me just
> once
> too often, Slackware 7 I seem to recall), it always seems to take a long
> time
> to boot to the point where one can log in and use it. (A test shows at
> least
> two and a half minutes on my machine (Intel Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz). When
> I
> bought my daughter a Laptop without an OS recently, I used Slax to see if
> the
> hardware all worked with GNU/Linux, and it seemed to take forever on that,
> at
> least 5 to six minutes. Have you tried any other 'live' Distro's, are they
> any
> quicker? It could be that Slax is just slow in loading, if you are prepared
> to
> run comparative tests it may be useful to run some of the smaller live CD
> versions in the 200 Mb range for comparison.
>
> Does it really matter if it works? Sorry not to be of anymore help.
>
>
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