On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 02:03 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:47:32AM -0500, David Curry wrote: > > > microc-ctl (assuming non-intel system) > > microcode_ctl in FC4 doesn't get enabled if you run it on > non-Intel, or < 686. > > > nfs, nfslock, netfs, autofs, xfs > > pcmcia (if not a laptop) > > You can get desktop PCI->PCMCIA bridge cards. > Theoretically we could grep lspci output for pcmcia > and only enable the service if we find something, but > this brings two problems. > - Docking stations. I think some older laptops only have > PCMCIA when docked. > - If I added a PCI bridge after I did the install I'd need > to manually enable the service. Ideally, something like kudzu/hal/whatever > would reenable it when it discovers something new on first boot with > the new hardware installed. > > > Apparently, each of the above programs can be eliminated from boot > > startup by deleting the symlink files in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d & rc5.d. > > chkconfig $servicename off is somewhat cleaner. > Okay.. Okay.. don't flame. but you may find this to be useful. In Gentoo, there's a bugzilla on getting boot-up to be faster. One way in which it is done (not new news) is to do parallelisation. In my experimenations (look at Bootchart) on this that I've moved from 1:07 to 0.49 sec of boot-up by shaving off a few items and what nots. one interesting thing which didn't actually made boot-up faster but what it did was to present the X/GDM screen to the user and runs the other startups iin the background. Its an interesting and good concept for the desktop, but still, since it actually _adds_ to overall boot up time, I didn't want it. > -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:04:23 up 8:21, 6 users, load average: 0.37, 0.62, 0.56
