Re: Fast booting for a Debian system - and suggestions for said system

[Cousin Stanley <cousinstanley@hotmail.com>]

> As for speeding up the bootprocess:
>
> # aptitude install dash
> # dpkg-reconfigure dash # let it take over the /bin/sh link
> # aptitude install insserv
> # dpkg-reconfigure insserv
> # echo "CONCURRENCY=shell" >> /etc/default/rcS

Andrei .... 

  After applying the method you outlined above
  along with replacing exim4 by nullmailer,
  the boot time for the Debian 5.0 Lenny system
  I use has significantly improved .... 

  Now from grub to kdm login screen is about 
  30-35 seconds .... Whoo Hoo !

  I think the major bottle-neck here may have been 
  with exim4 as there has always been a very pregnant pause 
  just before exim4 showed up in the boot process listing 
  which has carried over for me through Sarge, Etch, and 
  now Lenny ....

  Thanks very much for the information ....


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Stanley C. Kitching
Human Being
Phoenix, Arizona