DSL efficiency

Forum: HD Install
Topic: DSL efficiency
started by: chickenman

Posted by chickenman on June 29 2005,12:57

Can i speed up the DSL booting by killing boot checks, like all of the hardware recognition?, I dont need DSL to look for hardware on my computer, yet it does it every time I boot. Why cant it just store all of the data it finds and look that up each time insted of searching?

Can somebody help me because i don't even know where to start, has somebody allready figured out how to do this?, is it just a stupid idea?

I would be intrested in any other ways of speeding up the boot sequence.

cheers.

Posted by cbagger01 on June 29 2005,16:57

It can.

Stop knoppix-autoconfig from running.

Or add cheatcode:

nohwsetup

Posted by chickenman on June 30 2005,01:38

It may seem like a stupid question, but how do I run dsl commands (you know what I mean, cheatcodes, whatever) when I am running a HD install?, do I put them in the bootloader or something?

Posted by cbagger01 on June 30 2005,02:16

Yes.

You put them inside the "append" statement that is part of your bootloader config file.

Then you re-run your bootloader to activate your changes.

Posted by chickenman on June 30 2005,02:20

Cheers, but will this stop hardware configuration, or save the hardware configuration?

I'll give it a go anyway, lets hope it works

edit:

ok, it didnt break the OS (worst case scenerio), it seems to have sped it up a bit, cheers.

I have another compter running dsl on HDD and it has these problems:

-When you boot it asks you for a video mode (EVERY TIME)
-When it shuts down it allways gives an error because i dont have an sda5 plgged in to backup onto -i dont want it backing up anything its not on frugal!!

again, any help apperciated

Posted by cbagger01 on July 02 2005,04:59

For the video mode thing, try running

xsetup.sh

from the terminal window. This should save a new file as /home/dsl/.xserverrc

If you have a normal hd install, then your work is done. If it is a frugal install without a permanent /home directory, you will need to setup the DSL backup/restore process and make sure that home/dsl/.xserverrc is included inside your filetool.lst

Another possibility is that your bootloader contains the keyword "xsetup" inside the APPEND statement in your configuration. Try editing your bootloader and remove the xsetup keyword and then re-run your bootloader program.

I believe you can get rid of the second error by changing your "backup device" from sda5 to your hard drive, IE: hda1 or something like that.

If you can't do it from the menu, you can manually change the backup device by editing the file in your /opt folder. I believe it is called backup_device or .backup_device or something like that.