On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 12:04 AM, Larry Blodgett wrote: > I have installed 10.2.2 from scratch on a seperate partition on my > iBook 12" 500MHz 320 MegRam. The install and the intenet update tooks > hours and hours to perform. The machine is crawling and top says the > cpu is like 85-95 % busy. > This has me totally stumped, how could 9.2.2 run like a charm and > 10.2.2 be so slow? How large a partition did you install X on and how much free space do you have? Is the partition number important for an install, I recall reading where it should be installed on the first partition but I am not sure that is required. --- How about a switcher ad for adding software, installing a printer or any other action which requires a password...that you don't remember... :) Jack Rodgers Email: jackrodgers at earthlink.net Web: www.jackrodgers.com iCal: coming soon iBlog: coming soon