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Old 06-11-2010, 04:16 AM   #1
ahsanali004
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Linux too slow on laptop


Hello all,
I have installed RHEL 5 on my laptop, DELL inspiron 1525, with dual boot windows vista. Now the problem is that my window OS is working fine but my linux OS take round about 30 minutes to boot and when it boot it is too slow to work on that.
Can anyone help me getting out of this problem.

Ahsan

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Old 06-11-2010, 08:50 AM   #2
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Originally Posted by ahsanali004 View Post
Hello all,
I have installed RHEL 5 on my laptop, DELL inspiron 1525, with dual boot windows vista. Now the problem is that my window OS is working fine but my linux OS take round about 30 minutes to boot and when it boot it is too slow to work on that.
Can anyone help me getting out of this problem.

Ahsan
Well, since you don't give any details, it's hard to say. See any error(s) on the screen? How much memory do you have? Running as VM or dedicated? How big is your swap partition?

And unless you're paying for RedHat enterprise, remove it, and load something community-supported. Unless you've got a very specific reason for RHEL, you don't need a server-class OS on a laptop. The hardware will work better if you use a 'consumer' class OS, like openSUSE, Mandriva, Ubuntu, etc.
 
Old 06-11-2010, 03:24 PM   #3
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He should have 2GHz CPU and 1-4GB of RAM, no reason that system would boot so slow.

Info needed:

1.Witch exact version is installed? 5.0, 5.x, 5.5?

2.Paid subscription?

3.Does HDD light blinks non-stop?

4.Do you have working internet connection? In some cases, RHEL/CentOS will boot and work very slow if hostname is not set correctly and system is trying to resolve it's hostname via DNS server. So working internet connection with properly set hostname could solve this issue.
 
  


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