Hi All, I downloaded the FEL live DVD yesterday, and tried it on my laptop, but unfortunately found it to be too slow. It took a long time to boot from the DVD. Any ideas.suggestions on how to improve the speed? ThanksSandeep _________________________________________________________________ Insert movie times and more without leaving Hotmail®. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/QuickAdd?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutori...
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:02 AM, sandeep vijayakumarsandy_711@hotmail.com wrote:
I downloaded the FEL live DVD yesterday, and tried it on my laptop, but unfortunately found it to be too slow. It took a long time to boot from the DVD. Any ideas.suggestions on how to improve the speed?
Live CD/DVD is supposed to take time to boot even if you have a lot of RAM and a high speed processor. The whole OS is read from the DVD and loaded to RAM and then the OS runs from RAM. This reading and loading of data from DVD to RAM takes a lot of time as compared to loading an OS from hard disc since CD/DVD drive is slow device, about 10MBps (Hard disc can be as fast as 100 MBps or more) . So it is natural that it will take time to boot. Once the OS is loaded, it will run smoothly if you have more than 1 GB of RAM. If RAM is less than that, it will be a bit sluggish but will still run.
P.S: You should not use the EDA tools in live mode because all your changes will be lost. It is better to install it on your hard disc and then use them.
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 7:32 AM, sandeep vijayakumarsandy_711@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi All, I downloaded the FEL live DVD yesterday, and tried it on my laptop, but unfortunately found it to be too slow. It took a long time to boot from the DVD. Any ideas.suggestions on how to improve the speed?
Depends on what you mean by slow. It takes about 3-4 minutes or so to get my desktop in Live Mode on a Core 2 duo 2Ghz, 1 GB RAM 800 Mhz fsb. So calculate depending on your configuration.
Next, if you still feel the LiveDVD is taking too long, it could be because its currently KDE based and KDE4.x had some problems of long boot-up times (but was tweaked to restore sanity, according to what I have read). So the only other option you have is to install them on hard disk and switch to gnome or if you have bandwidth, Install a default fedora OS and then group install FEL.
yum groupinstall 'Electronic Lab'
HTH. A
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