Re: please help: booting vasta fails with "boot process x dies"

From: Andy Valencia <vandys_at_nospam.org>
Date: Sat May 02 1998 - 10:47:29 PDT

["roman puls" <puls@prz.tu-berlin.de> writes:]

>1) it seems as every access to the harddisk is _very_ slow. It took my
>machine 3-4 seconds from
>"less readme"
>until the first line is displayed. The command "ls" takes a lot of time to
>react, too.
>Is the FAT-filesystem as slow or is this behaviour machine (/hd) -dependent?
>(actually i use a pentium 200 with a fast hd)

No, it isn't that slow! :-) I'd guess something funny in your disk
completions... it's a very straightforward IDE driver (except, of course,
that it runs in user mode).

>2) does there is an actual todo-list? could only find elder ones in the
>mailing-archive. Im interested in doing some network stuff ;)

It depends on what kind of networking you want to do. Basic IP stack is
operational (though I found a memory leak I need to hunt down), as is basic
clustering (i.e., transparent forwarding of VSTa kernel messages).

>3) Just a remark: the installation tutorial on the website is probably
>outdated (http://www.zendo.com/vsta/Tutorial/Install.html).

I'll have a look again. I updated many of the files in the actual
distribution in 1.6.1.

                                                        Andy
Received on Sat May 2 07:15:53 1998

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