RE: install sloooow doooown

Learning the hard way is my weapon of choice.  Its gonna cost a lot of
beer around here  I can tell.    

Is it really common knowledge that having two hard drives on the same
IDE results in such a performance hit?  This is pretty severe slow
down....... trying to imagine what the installer was doing that would
result in so much confusion on the IDE bus.  I have to assume that
'normal' linux operation can accommodate a slave IDW hard drive.  It
must be the installer with command files on one partition/drive
directing packages off the cd onto the 2nd partition/drive.... killed me


Anyway it doesn't matter I took the small drive out and the install
succeeded.  I am a newbie using O'Rielys 'Learning Red Hat' as my
'blind' guide. 

But tell me.   Should I rip out those IDE slave hard drive from XP
before or after I leave the beer at the door step....   hehe   just
kiddn.   Thanks for helping me get my shell back.   Im happy


cheers 

John





-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Stewart M. Ives
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:02 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: install sloooow doooown

[email protected] wrote:
> They are IDE and they are on the same IDE channel.  I'll separate them
> ASAP.  Although the current install should be complete, at the current
> pace, in 6 or 7 hours.

So John, Didn't do your homework.  You are fined 1 case of beer.  Just
drop
it on the door step, I'll take it from there.

stew

>
> Thanks
>
> john
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stewart M. Ives
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 11:20 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: RE: install sloooow doooown
>
> Oh, here I go again, topposting. I'm sorry up front.
>
> Anyway.  You didn't say what kind of drives these are.  If they are
> IDE do
> you have them on different IDE cables and thus different IDE channels?
> If
> not then do that.  You should never install IDE drives on the same
> channel.
>
> If there SCSI then I don't know what's up.  Shouldn't be hardware.
>
> Are the CD's clean that you are installing from?? Sometimes that can
> slooow
> the install down.  Keeps trying to get a good read.
>
> stew
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]]On Behalf Of John
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: install sloooow doooown
>
>
>
> Has anyone experienced redhat 7.2 setup which starts the packages
> installation fairly zippy, gets about 2/3 the way, then starts
> crawling to about 5 MB an hour?   I suspect a disk problem because
> last night I attempted a rather elaborate partition scheme to
> accommodate Oracle's 'optimal framework'.   The install started slow
> and remained slow : 200MB in four hours!
>
>
> This is an older Motherboard with pentiumII 500 MB memory,  two hard
> drives
>
> This latest attempt, something as follows:
> Primary is 2 GB     50MB /boot    1000   /swap     950  MB /oradata
> Slave   is 12 GB    4096MB  /		4096 /usr	   3000MB
> /oracle
> achieved 800MB package installation very quickly then started
> crawling.
>
>
> I should also stated that I have a difficult time getting redhat to
> recognize the larger drive, although the bios detects it everytime.
> That's a strange discrepancy.   What I have to do after each failed
> install is take the drive to a machine with partition magic and wipe
> out the partitions with the 'complete clean' option.
>
> Can anyone confirm that this is a disk problem or help me figure out
> what might cause this weird slowdown?
>
> Regards,
>
> John
> Lrb-creations
> 415 647-0457
>
>
>
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