Fast Booting
 

I use mandkrake linux 9.2 and it takes about 45 seconds to boot to the login screen. I tried XP and a friends PC with a similar spec the other day and it booted in about 15 seconds. Is there anyway to make linux boot faster.

Michael

Yes, but I doubt you'll get it to boot as fast as WinXP.
Disable services you don't need, use Mandrakes controlcenter or check /etc/init.d/rc.x
(rc.3 = starting in text mode, rc.5 = starting with GUI.)

Also use a lighter windowmanager, not KDE or Gnome.
Mandrake sets IceWM up nicely, use icepref to tune it.
On my computer (AMD1700 512 RAM) KDE needs 30 sec, IceWM 5.

im using LinuxFromScratch-5.1.1 it boots in 8 seconds on my AMD Athlon 1333Mhz 512Meg Ram Nvidia GForce 440 MX.

suck on that ;)