Ramik
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Posts: 53
Joined: Nov. 2006 |
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Posted: Nov. 10 2006,20:34 |
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If you want to cut down on your boot time you can do a lot, this is what my 32mb P75 100mhz does from grub:
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# Damn Small Linux on hdd1
title DSL on hdd1
root (hd1,0)
kernel /boot/linux24 root=/dev/hdd1 quiet vga=normal noacpi noapm noscsi nodhcp nopcmcia nomce nofirewire noagp
makeactive
boot
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*The nodhcp is because I disabled the dhcp server on my router years ago and I like it !
*The nopcmcia is because I'm not useing a laptop so I don't have PCmcia.
*The noscsi is because I have no scsi drives, on common IDEs.
*The noacpi & noapm is because I don't remote connect to that machine so I have no need to re-\+boot it from afar, also the "Advanced Configuration and Power Interface" tends to be buggy even if you bother with updating your bios, cause back in those days no used to bother with that kind of stuff... PowerOff :-)
* nomce is because I have no use for Machine Check Exception, hopefully nothing will go wrong :-)
* nofirewire what firewire ? :-)
* noagp what agp ? :-)
** noapic is a risk, my system does well without the "Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controllers" because its a Pentium class, but i'm not doing it, In your case I would have omitted this because that old PIC chip on your board might be buggy.
** I heard of nousb but that sounds bugy (so if the module wont be loaded, wont the scripts halt the machine ?).
** Their is no nodma cause I like having a fast HD, if your system only supports dma33 (which this is probably the case), you might as well use nodma...
** Their is no frugal because this is an HD install...
I Have my X up and running in under 20sec.
Have Fun Testing !
Edits: correction and updates (I'm not on my DSL machine).
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