Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-19 Thread Cassiano Leal
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 09:09:49 Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:22:02 +0100 Sjoerd Hardeman sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: I have to wonder how you guys are torturing your systems that they take longer to boot than Vista... 2.8GHz system with 2GB

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-13 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
Paul Johnson wrote: I have to wonder how you guys are torturing your systems that they take longer to boot than Vista... 2.8GHz system with 2GB of RAM, Vista takes almost 5 minutes to boot. Debian's at GDM beeping at me to log in in about 45 seconds. Vista defaults to some sort of suspend to

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 09:22:02 +0100 Sjoerd Hardeman sjo...@lorentz.leidenuniv.nl wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: I have to wonder how you guys are torturing your systems that they take longer to boot than Vista... 2.8GHz system with 2GB of RAM, Vista takes almost 5 minutes to boot. Debian's

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Jochen Schulz
Dean Chester: Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. I use insserv on my desktop/laptop computers. My laptop boots in less than a minute from Grub to a usable desktop, including two password prompts (cryptdisks, gdm). Making

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Angus Auld
--- On Sun, 1/11/09, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: From: Celejar cele...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Speeding up Debian Boot To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 11:30 PM On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:17:57 -0500 JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: Ron Johnson wrote

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Preston Boyington
Dean Chester wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. Dean I use nullmailer instead of Exim since I don't need/want to run a mail server and I bring up my networks (wi-fi, lan) manually when I want them. I used bum

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Dean Chester wrote: Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. I'd be shocked to find any machine on which that is true considering my KUbuntu install boots to the desktop faster than XP as measured in minutes. Vista is well

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Daryl Styrk
The way I see it, Vista might boot a lil' faster, but it's worth the wait for Debian. It might be a bit embarrassing to have Vista boot faster, but at least you don't have to be embarrassed after it's up and runningunlike Vista. Just my humble opinion. Debian ROCKS. Regards.

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Stefan Monnier
That's after countless of s2disk :-) Wow...had no idea. So badly want a portable. s2disk works on desktops as well. And s2ram too (tho it doesn't work on mine). Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 07:50:41 -0800 (PST) Angus Auld aonghas_a...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Sun, 1/11/09, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: From: Celejar cele...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Speeding up Debian Boot To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 11:30 PM

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 05:49:23PM +, Dean Chester wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. Dean You have failed to define your terms, or to articulate a measurable problem. There are lots of ways to speed up boot

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread owens
Original Message From: ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Speeding up Debian Boot Date: Sun, 11 Jan 2009 12:36:37 -0600 On 01/11/09 11:49, Dean Chester wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-12 Thread Paul Johnson
Angus Auld wrote: --- On Sun, 1/11/09, Celejar cele...@gmail.com wrote: From: Celejar cele...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Speeding up Debian Boot To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, January 11, 2009, 11:30 PM On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:17:57 -0500 JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote

Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread Dean Chester
Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. Dean

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread Pavlos Parissis
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:49:23 + Dean Chester dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. Dean http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/620 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/11/09 11:49, Dean Chester wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. If you only reboot your machine once or twice a month, does it matter whether boot times are slow? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Pavlos Parissis wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:49:23 + Dean Chester dean.g.ches...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. Dean http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/620 good hint

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread JoeHill
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 11:49, Dean Chester wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. If you only reboot your machine once or twice a month, does it matter whether boot times are slow? maybe if

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/11/09 16:17, JoeHill wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 11:49, Dean Chester wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. If you only reboot your machine once or twice a month, does it matter whether boot

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:17:57 -0500 JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 11:49, Dean Chester wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. If you only reboot your machine

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread JoeHill
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 16:17, JoeHill wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 11:49, Dean Chester wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian. If you only reboot your machine once or twice a

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread JoeHill
Celejar wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 2009 17:17:57 -0500 JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/11/09 11:49, Dean Chester wrote: Hi Is there anyway i can speed up debians boot time. Its embarrassing that Vista boots up quicker than debian.

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:42:37PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: Celejar wrote: Suspend to disk; once you begin using it, you won't be able to do without it. How long does that last? Could you suspend to disk while you're commuting for, say, an hour or more? Suspend to ram: much faster, but

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread JoeHill
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 06:42:37PM -0500, JoeHill wrote: Celejar wrote: Suspend to disk; once you begin using it, you won't be able to do without it. How long does that last? Could you suspend to disk while you're commuting for, say, an hour or more?

Re: Speeding up Debian Boot

2009-01-11 Thread Paul Johnson
JoeHill wrote: Wow...had no idea. So badly want a portable. PROTIP: Buy a share of IBM stock. IBM shareholders get nice discounts on Lenovo ThinkPads. I love my A32 and T400. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature