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Posted: Nov. 25 2005,21:38 QUOTE
Hi,

I was wondering about how DSL boots compared to Debian.  I know on Debian stable/Sarge, it takes a LONG time to boot even a semifast computer.  I guess that this is due to the auto detection that they are now using.  It seems if I remember right, the last Debian version was a lot faster to boot as you just put in the modules you wanted to boot in an init script somewhere in /etc

Does DSL use the same method as Sarge?

Can anyone tell me if they know how to change Sarge to boot faster?  I was thinking maybe a good idea would be to do an HD install of DSL if they have a faster boot method.

I can't imagine have long the current Debian would take on a slow computer.  Eck!  I do know that Puppy boot very very fast on my PII -300 laptop.

Thank you for wading through this long note!

Mark.
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Posted: Nov. 25 2005,22:26 QUOTE
I managed to get DSL booting in 25 seconds on my K6-III 400mhz by recompiling the kerneland using nohwsetup in append section. You can do the same on Sarge
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Posted: Dec. 25 2005,18:16 QUOTE
I ran DSL linux from the cd on a P-III 550 MMX HP BRIO.
It was just too slow for XP, putting Xp on it was a disaster, but DSL waws great.
It was even faster when I added a 256 meg Linux swap file in the HD. (I use Partition Magic 8 to do this).
eventually I tried to install UBABTU to disk and had trouble with this, so I deleted it and installed SuSe 9.3 pro and it was excellent.
At least DSL showed me that the PC would run Linux, I did wonder as the video uses ram rather than a proper video card.
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