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Re: Sony cdu33a slow installation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Sat Oct 24 14:56:48 1998
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 14:38:40 -0400
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Patrice Hamelin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a PC like so:
> - 486 DX/2-50
> - 8 Megs of RAM
8mb of memory is barely enough, and bound to be very slow.
Try increasing the memory as much as you can.
Linux requires more memory than Win3.1 and
much more than DOS.
>
> - 120 + 340 Megs HD
> - PAS-16
> - Internal Modem GVC (COM3)
> - Sony CDU-33A with controler board (DMA=3, IRQ=9, BASE=0x340)
>
> I'm trying to install Redhat Linux 5.1 on the 120 Megs drive and I'm
> able to
> read the CD but it becomes very slow in the filesystems setup screen or
> "scanning hard disks" part of installation. I tried to take off the
> sound card from my system, I tried IRQ=0 IRQ=3 and IRQ=9 (CD card), I
> tried no DMA and DMA=3 on the CD card. The only thing I have not tried
> is to change the BASE address 0x340. This CD work very fine in
> DOS/Windows 3.11.
>
> Yesterday night I tried to install from my DOS HD and when I inserted
> the SUPP diskette, the same phenomenon happened again on the floppy.
> The install procedure starts to seek the floppy drive over and over. I
> let it go for 15 minutes and then stop that thing.
>
> I pull my hair on this. I would like to install Redhat 5.1; that's
> all!!!
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
>
> --
> Patrice Hamelin, ing.
> Systems analyst
> HNSX Supercomputers
> Dorval, Quebec,
> Canada, H9P 2X5
> http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/1517
>
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