Is there anyway I could boot linux faster

[Austin Isler]

Brian Fahrlander wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 05:33, Paul wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>>What ia ma trieing to do is trining to figure out a way to start gdm
>>>before most of the services. Does anyone know how to do this. Or is it
>>>possibnle at all that gdm starts before lets say kudzu and all the
>>>other default things that load up.
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>>Possibly the best way (but not the easiest) is detailed on the IBM
>>website
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>>http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-boot.html
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>>It isn't easy, but it does speed things up.
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>    Tell me you're not dual-booting a server, are ya?  Ick!
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>    :)
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>    About a year ago, probably more, there was a lot of motion towards
>making a machine boot in several seconds. But unless you're a laptop
>person with power problems, etc, why would you need to?  
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>    The other night a friend of my daughter had a friend over. When it
>got late, I was following an NIS curiosity when I got a shutdown notice.
>I hadn't heard anything from my daughter, but I got out.  Turns out, the
>friend figured she was going to bed, so she did a shutdown from GDM and
>that turned off the power.
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>    I was shocked; she didn't know how to login, but she knew how to
>shutdown.  The funny part was that she didn't live in a world where you
>just let'em run...they get turned off every time they get up, in their
>world.
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>    Guess I've been in Linux a really long time, now.
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WHAT!!!! She shutdown the machine, unspeakable. Im proud if I can even 
keep it going for 5 days before my son shuts it down. I need to teach 
this boy the importance of servers.

Austin