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24 hours to install Linux?

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robisc

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I just put together and old P166 64mb RAM and I am trying to load Mandrake 7.2 in it, it takes about 24 hours for it to install both disks, why does it take that long? I am not a Linux pro at all so I am needing help, is there something wrong with my machine or is it just that the HW makes it take this long?
 
Something is very wrong, but I had a similar problem. I just built a Pentium Pro 200 machine with 64 MB of RAM and it took 24 hrs to install win98. It was way too slow to use. I finally fixed it by looking in the BIOS and I saw something about resetting everything to defaults. I did it and it ran fine after that. I don't even know what setting was wrong, but setting everything back to defaults worked for me. Good Luck.
 
Something's definately wrong. I'm running a pretty different setup all around, but my slackware install only takes ~10-15 minutes. Even when I was running Redhat on my IDT Centaur 225mhz it only took about an hour to install tops.
 
The strange thing is that when I had it installed on this box before this version it ran OK, I mean it wasn't a speed demon but it was pretty good, any other suggestions
 
It only took 2 hours to install RH7 to an old 486 I have. Did you reset the BIOS stuff to default?
 
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