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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!gumby!andrews-cc!gillham From: gillham@andrews.edu (Andrew Gillham) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: Initial load-up SLOW with CD-Rom Date: 11 Sep 1994 01:02:30 GMT Organization: Andrews University Lines: 19 Message-ID: <34tkv6$pp9@orion.cc.andrews.edu> References: <85354.frisc005@maroon.tc.umn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: edmund.cs.andrews.edu In article <85354.frisc005@maroon.tc.umn.edu> <frisc005@maroon.tc.umn.edu> writes: >Ever since I installed my CD-Rom, load-up is incredibly slow. After it >loads the CD-Rom, the process stalls for about 30 seconds before >continuing the load-up. I would like to keep the CD-Rom in my >autoexec.bat, but will I always have to wait for it to do whatever the >CD-Rom does for that long. Does anyone have a solution other than buying a >486. (Is that a dirty word in this company of readers?) Uhmm, none of the 386bsd-based systems have an autoexec.bat... :-) I believe that is one of the features of 386bsd v1.0 though. As as we all know, the "slow-down" is because the machine is actually booting off the CD-ROM.. :-) :-) -Andrew -- ========================================================== Andrew Gillham gillham@andrews.edu LAN/WAN/Netware/Unix Analyst gillham@whirlpool.com ==========================================================