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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 30 min per disk to load os2
- Keywords: slow boot
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.191231.20105@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:12:31 GMT
- References: <1214@tekgen.bv.tek.com>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1214@tekgen.bv.tek.com> stevesm@scotty.hco.tek.com (Steve Smith) writes:
- >Well its my turn this time. My brother recently bought OS/2 and tried
- >loading it on his '486 machine. He was able to load OS2 and get it
- >running, however, as he was loading it, he noticed that the average
- >time it took to unload the software from the 3 1/2" disks was 30 min.
- >It literally took all night just to load the OS!
- >Also, now when he tries to boot OS/2, it takes about 10 minutes!
- >The hardware consists of a 33Mhz, '486 clone with AMI bios, 8 megs ram
- >and a 28 msec 71 MB MFM hard disk. ( I know the HD is way too small
- >but he wanted to buy OS/2 while the price was right, he plans to
- >upgrade the HD in the future.)
- >My question is what could be causing this slow down? Could the hard
- >disk be the reason for the incredible slowness of the system?
-
- Yes. Get the ibm1s506.zoo patch, available via anonymous ftp from
- ftp-os2.nmsu.edu. That patch should clear up the problem.
-
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