I have since noticed that my console screens (ie CTRL-ALT-F1) have their text all garbled, in that there is no recogniseable characters, just random bits on the screen. I noticed this when shutting down the machine. It's not totally random. All spaces have the same random pattern, for example, and the colours are correct (ie. the status of stopping of services show up in green or red properly)
Lately, I've looked at trying to just wipe everything clean and reinstall. I downloaded the FC3 DVD image, and burned that to a DVD-ROM, booted off of that and did a RAM test, and everything seems okay, then started the install.
I got as far as the disk druid screen before I finally gave up. Just running off of the install disk is still insanely slow. On a whim, I tried the RedHat EL3 install disks, and the machine seemed to be running SIGNIFICANTLY faster.
I realise that there are quite a few differences between the two install processes, but when execution times are an order of magnitude slower than they used to be (the bootup process, for example takes me 15 minutes on a P4 2.8GHz machine with 1G of RAM), there's something seriously wrong.
Has no one else run into this problem?
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Christopher Calzonetti, MFCF C&O Software Specialist
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