Subject: Re: CD-ROM Activity lockups under mol 0.9.46
From: Samuel Rydh (samuel@ibrium.se)
Date: Sat Jun 03 2000 - 17:22:36 MDT
On Sat, Jun 03, 2000 at 03:46:02PM -0700, David wrote:
> Yesterday at work on my G4 running yellowdog's source distribution of
> 2.2.15-2.0.9, I tried installing Adobe Photoshop 5.5 over CD-ROM. The
> CD-ROM is /dev/hdc which I added to my /etc/molrc.
>
> MacOS (9.0) sees the CD fine, the install gets about 1/2 to 2/3 the way
> through and the Mac completely hangs up.
>
I've noticed these problems with cd installations.
In the beginning things moves swiftly, then things go
gradually slower until it really crawls. It appears
primarily to be a memory/io-buffering problem.
I suggest you try reducing the amount of RAM MOL is given
when you run the installer.
Good Luck,
/Samuel
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