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      Matts last edited by

      Hi All,

      I have installed Pfsense on a harddisk and discovered that booting takes very long. I already heard something about disabeling the FDD in some way on IRC, but I don't know if I have to do this in the distro, or just in the bios.

      While booting, it detects the cdrom, after this it wants to read the floppy drive for about 7 minutes, I think it wants to read a config or something like it ?

      After this, it mounts the system partition (I thought that one) and boots further.

      Now I have disconnected the floppycable booting goes much faster, and after mounting the cdrom it takes about 20 sec before it boots further, much faster !

      I was not able to find anything on the forum or the faq, but is this a known issue ?

      Thanks.

      Matt

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        Matts last edited by

        Beste solutions is to disable the FDD i the bios of disconnect it.

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          sai last edited by

          best solution is to disable everything (parallel port, serial port, sound card ,  usb) that you dont use.

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