DOC vs. IDE

[Ronald G Minnich]

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Christopher Bergeron wrote:

> So DoC _IS_ faster than IDE?  If this is the case, why should it be
> that mounting it with /dev/hda1 as root would make for a faster boot?
> By my logic, I would think that having /boot and /root on a DoC would
> make it faster.

It is not faster. But it is faster to load a kernel from linux while the
slow IDE spins up. Then once the kernel is in there it can go to IDE.

ron