Somebody in the thread at some point said: > Hello, > I just installed fedora 8.I checked the boot up time.It came > to 92 seconds.I then removed some of the services and the boot up time > came down to 50 seconds.But still this is a long time.How can I > further reduce the boot up time? Avoid boots by using suspend? This laptop comes up in three or four seconds from suspend -- although then I have to spend anything from 30 seconds to several minutes messing with iwl3945 and NetworkManager to get wireless back up. -Andy