FC4 -- really slow

[Craig Cruden]

I have installed FC4test2 on my computer (from DVD)
[first attempt at FC4], and it is unbelievably slow.  

The booting process took a long time -- and then when
it came time to estimate install time for the packages
-- it started at over 300 minutes to install
everything.  

After rebooting -- it was again painfully slow -- 15+
minutes.  

It booted to the SMP version (the first time I
realized the processor in that computer was
Hyperthreaded).  The processors ran at 50% utilization
for a while before finally calming down.... but the
whole operating system is still painfully slow.  

The computer is based on a 

P4C800-E Deluxe (bios updated to current most recent)
P4 3.0E  (3 Gigahertz)
4 GB of main memory (3.4 GB usable). 
250 G hard drive (disconnected the other 3 drives
since I could not figure out which one was the
bootable one otherwise).  
NVidia GeForce 3

Any ideas -- why this thing is sooooooooooo slow.

C


		
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