Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-12 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Rob wrote: > Warren Block wrote: > > On Tue, 11 May 2004, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > > > >>I've heard a lot of comments about the booting > >>process of freebsd, that it is much faster than > >>booting into Linux. > > > > It is. > > I also seem to remember that from my l

Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-12 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
On Wed, 12 May 2004, Pavel Duda wrote: > Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > > > > Please help me sir. I want to make the most out > > of my FreeBSD system. And one last thing, I know this > > might sound ignorant on my part but... could you tell > > how to run multiple programs in one log-in promp

Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-12 Thread Pavel Duda
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > Please help me sir. I want to make the most out of my FreeBSD system. And one last thing, I know this might sound ignorant on my part but... could you tell how to run multiple programs in one log-in prompt? I didn't acctualy understand how virtual consoles works so

Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-12 Thread Rob
Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 11 May 2004, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: I've heard a lot of comments about the booting process of freebsd, that it is much faster than booting into Linux. It is. I also seem to remember that from my long-time-back linux experience. Given a same amount of services to

Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-12 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 11 May 2004, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: > I've heard a lot of comments about the booting > process of freebsd, that it is much faster than > booting into Linux. It is. > I'm not experiencing quite as much as what their saying right now. You don't say if there's any particular step t

RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-11 Thread Robert Huff
Eric Crist writes: > On my system, unless you're in X, it's Alt-Fn (you have to do > Ctl-Alt-Fn from an X session). I did not know that. Thanks. Robert Huff ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.f

RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-11 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robert Huff Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process Eric Crist writes: > You can send a program into the background by trailing the comm

Re: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-11 Thread Bob Collins
Robert Huff wrote: [snip] An easier solution is to login to a second virtual terminal by hitting Alt-F2 (all the way up to F7). Then just switch back by pressing Alt-F1, or whichever terminal you were on before. And its Ctl-Alt-Fn, not Alt-Fn on my -Current system IIRC, Ctrl-Alt-Fn is for whe

Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-11 Thread Robert Huff
Mark Jayson Alvarez writes: > I've already read the FreeBSD handbook's > essential parts for a typical users and I'm thinking > if I've missed something very important about speeding > up boot process. It would help if we could see the contents of /etc/rc.conf and /usr/local/etc/rc.d

RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-11 Thread Robert Huff
Eric Crist writes: > You can send a program into the background by trailing the command with > &&. So, if you want to run amp (an mp3 player), you could simply type: > > # amp song.mp3 && I thought '&' was background and "&&" meant "execute the foillowing command only if the previo

RE: Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-11 Thread Eric Crist
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 10:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help: Speeding up Boot Process Sir, [SNIP] And one last thing, I know this might sound ignorant on my part but

Help: Speeding up Boot Process

2004-05-11 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Sir, I've heard a lot of comments about the booting process of freebsd, that it is much faster than booting into Linux. I'm not experiencing quite as much as what their saying right now. Is there any link that you can give me so that I could learn how to speed up my booting process? Just for in