Re: [seul-edu] Re: Best wm for tiny slow computers?

["Ralph M. Deal" <deal@kzoo.edu>]

On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Michael Shigorin wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 01:49:36PM +0200, Michael Shigorin wrote:
> > ...but if hassle is unbearable, "init 1; umount -a; sync; sync; dd"
> > should do the job (although you get root partition copy
> > non-clean in terms of fsck).
> Forgot to add -- which is fixed by mount -o ro,remount / :)

Great to be getting advice from Kiev (pardon my provincialism).
Thanks for that addition.  I have been exploring the hdparm
operations you suggested to improve the disk speed and am
prepared to try them on the drives I'm working on.  I presume
the hdparm tweaking can be done on the wiped-clean harddrives before
transferring any ext2 files and partitions to them since
hdparm addresses prom(?) settings on the drive itself.

	Thanks again,  Ralph   deal@kzoo.edu