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I´m having problems with the Slackware 9.1 installation. When I try to install in my computer, the installation process is very slowly.
The computer where I´m trying to install is a Duron 1.0, 192MB, 4GB...
Are you booting from the installation CD? How far does the installation proceed? What are your partition sizes? With more information I can try to help.
Felipe, it's probably just due to computer speed. On my 2.6 ghz P4 w/ 120 GB HD and 1 GB Ram hard drive it takes a good 30 minutes to do a full install.
There are a lot of packages that need to be copied over.
I would recommend just doing a minimal install. It will ensure that no unnecessary services are running and anyway, a lot of programs will be out of date.
My installation of slackware consisted of the base install, links, the standard libraries and a few bits and pieces. I then downloaded CUPS, SSH, SSL and fluxbox.
Since then I've added bits, and because my installation was so minimal, I know exactly what files were down to me installing things...
Originally posted by mcleprechaun Are you booting from the installation CD? How far does the installation proceed? What are your partition sizes? With more information I can try to help.
I´m booting from the installation CD. More or less 2 hours or more... Is very slowly...
I´m only tested using only using a root partition...
Originally posted by zigmund555 Felipe, it's probably just due to computer speed. On my 2.6 ghz P4 w/ 120 GB HD and 1 GB Ram hard drive it takes a good 30 minutes to do a full install.
There are a lot of packages that need to be copied over.
I´m understading your explanation, but I enter in the MENU type installation and I select only the packages that I need. In others computer it´s not so slowly... It´s takes 20-30 minutes
Originally posted by darklogik_org I would recommend just doing a minimal install. It will ensure that no unnecessary services are running and anyway, a lot of programs will be out of date.
My installation of slackware consisted of the base install, links, the standard libraries and a few bits and pieces. I then downloaded CUPS, SSH, SSL and fluxbox.
Since then I've added bits, and because my installation was so minimal, I know exactly what files were down to me installing things...
I had one Maxtor 30GB hard disk which was painfully slow to install, both various Linux distros and Windows NT4. The symptom was a long pause after writing each package, like the drive was failing to signal IO ready. After resetting and testing OK with Maxblast and a few more installs over several months it suddenly failed maxblast and soon died. Strangely it was passing SMART up to the end.
Originally posted by davidsrsb I had one Maxtor 30GB hard disk which was painfully slow to install, both various Linux distros and Windows NT4. The symptom was a long pause after writing each package, like the drive was failing to signal IO ready. After resetting and testing OK with Maxblast and a few more installs over several months it suddenly failed maxblast and soon died. Strangely it was passing SMART up to the end.
I had one Seagate 10GB hard disk. I don´t know if it´s the problem because I try to install on Western Digital 4GB hard disk and occurs the same problem. I´ll change the hard drive and try to install again...
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Slackware 9.1 slowly installation!
