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I tried "chmod -x rc.inet1" and the boot time did reduce. However, I have to manually turn on the DHCP services later on after booting into the screen.
And what does it mean by "try to detect carrier on systems which support that"?
If you don't need network access as part of the boot process (no nfs mounts or some such), you could patch /etc/rc.d/rc.M to run the rc.inet1 script in the background...
Code:
# Initialize the networking hardware.
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 ]; then
. /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 &
fi
...where the additional & is the only change.
That can break stuff, since the network daemons and ntpd will try to start anyways.
The "try to detect carrier on systems which support that" means that some ethernet cards "know" if they are physically connected to a network or not; their drivers could theoretically tell you that's the case. If a card isn't connected to anything, there's no reason to look for a DHCP server with it.
I reboot the machine a lot because of the kernel build, so I've moved these from rc.M into a cron job.
They really don't need to update all that often.
between (guess from someone whose native language is French).
Thank you!
Well, the OP wanted fast boot like Ubuntu with Slackware. I offered a solution. I'm not going to fault anyone who needs or likes the software in question. Slackware is a solid base for anything.
The OP should get used to. There are differences between distributions. Slackware is not light speed in boot time. The quickest boot I got was with LFS. I can imagine Gentoo also boots with light speed. Benefits of using Slackware are simply overshadow the minor annoyances concerning boot time.
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