reclusive monkey wrote:

> Nice Review of Slackware 10.2;
> http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=05/10/17/1538202

Odd ... the author states:

In 10.1, the installer slowed to a crawl if asked to place the OS
on one of several partitions that it could see. Scanning for the
installation CD seemed to take forever, and individual packages were
taking minutes to install instead of seconds. When I installed 10.1
with only the target and swap partitions known to the installer,
it would fly, but not with a second and third partition.

My systems have never (still running Slackware-3.1 on one system, up to
10.1 on a number of others, with several somewhere between those) had
only two partitions (one "target" and one swap). My typical systems these
days (I have been using what has become for me a "standard" layout since
around 9.0 was new) have nine partitions, and I've not once experienced
the above. Hardware issues perhaps?

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Systems and Network analyst Concordia University
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