Ok folks,

Knowing little about RH, someone saw fit to give me a 1997 SGI O2 to play with - literally - it has sat for over a year without being turned on...

So I start playing and the first thing I notice is that it is incredibly slow.......
I mean really slow.....
like 10+ minute boot times slow....
once it is up and running any icon I click on takes forever to come up. I sometimes forget that I clicked on it while I play in the shell.....

does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to improve performance... or how I can tweak the system somewhat.

I would also like to make this a dual boot with RH8.3 but can't figure out how to boot off the CD yet - help here is also appreciated.

THanks