Re: Traffic while booting II

[Jim McQuillan <jam@McQuil.com>]

Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote:
> 
> 
> After many, many minutes of stripping everything down to the least
> possibel. I'm now a 3,2MByte of traffic for booting and 45 Secs from
> flipping the switch until the login-Prompt shows. (Before it was 1:10, a
> win of 25 Secs. The computer needs 15 Secs for it's POST.)
> 
> Another positive effekt was that i could shrink the size for the NFS-Root
> to 4,8MB (First, running, version was 60MB)
> 
> I don't think i'm "fanatic" but has someone had more "luck" in boot-time
> &| Size of the NFS-Root? (I have only things i need to create a
> DOS-Partition on a local Hard-Drive and install a Tar-Archive with the
> Application that will later run on that computer. -> Not much more than
> you can find on a tomsrtbt "rescue" distribution)

Matthias,

Take a look at http://www.ltsp.org.  I've got several machines that go
from power on to XDM login in 22 seconds.

Thanks,
Jim McQuillan
jam@ltsp.org
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