2 hours for memtest isn't entirely overly optimistic. memtest86 is quite thorough and full testing takes time. Normally you'd know something was really wrong with the RAM after the first 3 tests. As for very looong boot times I'd see how fast Knoppix would boot with the hard drive disconnected. If it's up in 5 to 10 minutes I'd use the hard drive for a paper weight.
Also, Gentoo on a 333? Are you nuts? Unless you're doing straight binaries or using distcc I wouldn't think of it. --- larry price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > perhaps we were overly optimistic about the machine, it seems > to be > very slow to do > very simple things (as in taking 15 minutes to boot and two > hours to > run memtest) > > Mr O? any suggestions? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
