booting time of DSL

[John]

I suspect the slow boot from USB is a result of the slow USB 1.x connection, ram and CPU limitation. We can't do much about the USB speed, but I think it *may* be possible to speed up the boot process from USB on these old netbooks by using an less compressed ISO. DSL is using zx compression to squeeze all the included applications and drivers into 700MB. I could set up a special ISO that is larger (less compressed) and it should take less cycles to boot. This wouldn't have any change on boot time once installed, but should be an improvement for people who want to boot off of USB.

If you all want to experiment with me I'll set up a temporary download and you could report back your findings.