Slackware 15.0 install extremely slow
by tril42 from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6D00G)
I am trying to install Slackware 15.0, and for some reason, parts of the package installation are going extremely slowly. It will blaze along through various packages and then suddenly hang for a long time (minutes-long) on a certain package, seemingly at random. After finally completing that, it will then hang again on some new package shortly thereafter.
I thought it might be my CD drive, so tried setting it to load the packages from the ISO on another HD partition instead. Still happened. I checked dmesg in another terminal and noticed error messages from dhcp, so unplugged my DSL modem in case it was a network thing. Restarted. No luck.
I looked at the results of top and it appeared that each time, it was hanging in the middle of a "tar" command.
I've installed many versions of Slackware before this and never had this happen. Any ideas?
I thought it might be my CD drive, so tried setting it to load the packages from the ISO on another HD partition instead. Still happened. I checked dmesg in another terminal and noticed error messages from dhcp, so unplugged my DSL modem in case it was a network thing. Restarted. No luck.
I looked at the results of top and it appeared that each time, it was hanging in the middle of a "tar" command.
I've installed many versions of Slackware before this and never had this happen. Any ideas?