Re: [orca-list] boot time

[Janina Sajka <janina rednote net>]

A frequent culpirt is probing for a dhcp address when no dhcp server is
available. Therefore, I do not myself enable dhcp during boot on my
laptop which, at any given time, might or might not be connected to the
net.

Janina

Mike Pedersen writes:
> > for those who are running feisty on their machines, what is the average boot 
> > time for it? on my machine the ubuntu logo takes just about the same time 
> > xp's logo takes. but then the portion that follows, and I have no idea what 
> > it is, takes so long. so the whole boot process is as twice as windows 
> > normally takes to load. is this normal?
> >
> > my machine is: 3ghz CPU, 1gb ram.
>
> Take a look in your /var/syslog to see if something is failing to
> initialize.  Perhaps a wireless network adapter or something.  My 1.7GHZ
> laptop with 1GB of ram takes about 20 seconds to boot.  
> Mike
>
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