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Posted: July 19 2007,17:14 QUOTE
Sorry for the confusion... when I meant replacing the current "initrd system", I meant the actual init system (i.e. the 2.78-knoppix used in DSL) and not the scripts (although optimizing that could be beneficial as well).
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Posted: July 20 2007,07:22 QUOTE
Where do I find the "original" initrd?  I have downloaded the syslinux version and there is only two boot files and KNOPPIX in it.
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Posted: July 20 2007,07:32 QUOTE
The syslinux version has them in boot.img.
Recall syslinux needs a boot floppy image to boot from.

I have not followed this too closely, but, if you were experiencing slow usb boot times with the initrd version, it would likely be your bios and boot loader using usb 1.1. Not sure if a newer syslinux version will help or not. Google "syslinux usb2" and you will see what I mean.

On the otherhand, Juanito, has had success with faster times using extlinux boot loader. That might be another area to explore. Do a google on "extlinux usb2"

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Posted: July 20 2007,07:57 QUOTE
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Juanito, has had success with faster times using extlinux boot loader
Just to clarify - faster in this context means 6-7MB/s with DSL-3.4 and 12MB/s with DSL-4, both using extlinux. The load time is not shown (for me at least) when using a USB stick formatted FAT/FAT32

If anyone wants to try extlinux, it is in the syslinux-mssys extension in "testing"
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Posted: July 23 2007,12:33 QUOTE
extlinux didnt make a dent in boot time with DSL3.4

where do I get DSL4? (is it beta?)
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