slow boot times

[Matt Freymiller]

Hi

I'm writing in just with a quick question. I have a power pc 6400/200. Its a 
200 Mhz system with about 128Mb ram. I have yellowdog 3.0 installed with 
just the os and few other small packages. No X, no GUI, no real services 
such as ftp or http. It currently takes about an hour to boot the system to 
linux. It will boot os9 in just a few minutes, but linux takes forever. It 
will boot a little way, hang for a while, boot a little further, hang, so on 
and so forth. It also takes about the same amount of time to shut down. I'm 
wanting to use this for a firewall, web server, ftp server at home. Very low 
usage but I'm thinking that an hour boot time is a bad omen. Is this normal 
on a slower machine like this, or is there some way I could tweak a little 
faster boot time out of it, maybe a kernel parameter or something?

I'm currently doing a yum update to see if that will help.

Thanks for the help...
stir_frey

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