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Date:      Thu, 18 Jun 1998 16:18:51 -0700
From:      Tim Gerchmez <fewtch@serv.net>
To:        Alex Nash <nash@mcs.net>
Cc:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Major hardware reorganization...
Message-ID:  <3.0.5.32.19980618161851.007f0620@mx.serv.net>
In-Reply-To: <199806182226.RAA18321@nash.pr.mcs.net>
References:  <199806181637.MAA27806@luomat.peak.org>

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At 05:26 PM 6/18/98 -0500, you wrote:

>My 486/100 laptop boots up in 41 seconds (timed until the login: prompt
>appeared), and provides mail services equivalent to MS Exchange, a
>secure shell service, and assorted services courtesy of inetd (FTP,
>telnet, finger etc.).  My Pentium II 233MHz takes about 43 seconds to
>load Windows 95 (timed until the cursor actually became usable --
>getting a GUI with an hourglass doesn't count), and provides only one
>service: SMB file sharing.

It shouldn't be taking that long.  You need to work on tuning and
configuring it.  I almost wish you lived near me, I'm an *expert* at this,
and my Win95 boots in about 15 seconds on my P200MMX (when my SparQ drive
is turned off and its not probing for it... this adds a few extra seconds).

BTW, CPU speed has very little effect on boot time for any OS.  Boot time
is more controlled by what drivers are being loaded (and how the driver
interacts with the OS at boot time), the speed of the hard drive, and how
much RAM is in the machine.


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