Very Computer

by **DeAnn Iwa** » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00

I'm trying to use NFS to install Suse 6.1 on a machine w/o a cdrom
drive. Although I seem to have NFS set up, the network connection is
very slow....so slow that it takes 10s of minutes to go between screens
that ought to flash one right after another. I've been examining system
logs, etc., trying to figure out what I have set up "wrong". The
machine being loaded was originally 8 MB RAM. The install seemed slow,
so I borrowed another 8 MB stick from another machine. The install sped
up to a normal working speed. But that install died out for unkown
reasons. Ever since then, when I get the install running, it slows to
this glacial speed. I found a few minor problems with the NFS server
set up (an extra space in the fstab file) that sped part of the response
up. But everything is still very slow (it took 2 hours this morning to
get from the "do you want to partition?" screen to the "format the
partition screen". I have tried this a bunch of times, and only that
one time got reasonable throughput. Does anyone have some ideas of what
could be wrong and where I could look? (I have 16 MB RAM and a 40 MB
swap set up. Which ONCE was enough for things to go smoothly...but I
had some kind of swap disk corruption abort that install, and I've been
creeping ever since, unable to finish any install successfully.)

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Suse slow NFS install problem

Suse slow NFS install problem