I have roughly timed the boot up of Q60 Linux, which boots up from SMSQ/E on the hard disk, with a slightly modified boot program.
It takes about 47 seconds to get to the Linux login prompt, this includes mounting a 5Gb partition, loading the NE2000 network module, SCSI-IDE emulation and detecting the CDRW drive. So I gueess that is not too bad, as some i386 Linux implementations take the same amount of time, or sometimes longer to get to the Linux login prompt. But I would not think that is a very good comparison. Derek
