[dundee] Re: slax

[Nistur]

That's actually a good point. Slax uses SquashFS+LZMA for it's "modules"...
however I still don't see how that necessarily slows udevtrigger down. I
have noticed that the "copy2ram" option has made it significantly quicker.
I'll just keep on fiddling :D So far I have it booting from grub (rather
than syslinux or lilo) and almost have it autologging fluxbox on init 4.
With regards to checking the MD5Sum, I haven't, but it's also not an iso,
and the tarball unrolled without errors.


On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Digit (SG) <digit.siljrath at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> i'll bet the compression has a bit part to play in this slowness.
>
> 2008/6/30 John¹ <seago.john at googlemail.com>:
>
> 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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