On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 06:10, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> Still no joy.  The CDROM still takes ages to mount.  It almost as if
> something is tying up a bunch of low-level system stuff until it expires
> on a time-out. This is really interfering with using Mandrake 9.0.  I might
> blame it on slow hardware (a 100MHz Pentium), except no such delays occur with SuSE 
> Linux running on the same hardware (dual boot)
> 

Get rid of Supermount altogether. Then make sure the CDROM is clean.
Then set the hdparm on that drive. Pray once, then try again.

> During boot, it takes ninety seconds to start up devFS.  Is this normal?

Get rid of Supermount and autofs.

> Subsequent operations from the CD are slow too: 29 seconds to ls a directory,
> 14 seconds fo unmount the CD.

Set the hdparm for this drive! Really!

> It takes over two minutes to start Mandrake Command Centre.  Most of the time
> it appears to be doing nothing.  It takes a minute to get to the place where
> I can turn system services on and off.

Set the hdparm for the primary drive as well...AND make sure your path
statements in your /etc/ld.so.conf are set properly and ldconfig is run
again to rebuild the lib path cache...

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