On 2003.07.10 14:26, Dan Hatton wrote:
I too had very slow boot-up under Linux, until recently. Two likely explanations are:
Your machine is loading lots of stuff at boot time that you don't really need. Take a look at the messages that come up while it boots. Are you ever going to use that news server/mail transport agent/third firewall?
Linux systems tend to wait until all system services are started before presenting either the text mode login prompt or the graphical login (xdm, kdm gdm etc.)
By comparison, windows presents the GUI login screen before all services are started and continues to start them in the background. If you have a GUI login screen on Linux (gdm, kdm or xdm) you could do this on Linux too by changing the order of the symlinks in /etc/rc2.d or /etc/rc3.d (depending on distro).
Steve.