Beartooth wrote: > On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 07:32:00 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > > >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> >>> >>>> Given that limitation, speed of boot becomes a major criterion. >>>> F10 (and also, believe it or not, Pupeee) took *over* ten minutes -- >>>> yes, real sixty-second minutes; it's not a typo -- just to boot. And >>>> then had to find wifi. >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> WHAT!!!!!!??????? >>> >>> I just booted mine for the morning, and it was on the login GUI in 50 >>> SECONDS! >>> >>> Once I entered my password it was connected to the network in under 30 >>> SECONDS (and I use WPA-PSK). >>> >>> You have install/setup problems. What services are you running? There >>> may be a number of services that are waiting on the network to come up >>> to check something and are waiting for timeouts, missing that the link >>> is down so don't bother to try (ntp does it right, for example). >>> >> Now that you mention it, it does sound like sendmail/samba, etc., >> waiting for DNS on a disconnected network. >> > > Gentlemen, I thank you both -- and wish I had gotten to this > point several weeks back. I'll go give F10 (or maybe F11) another try > ASAP. Are you running full F10, or the install from the live CD, or what? > F10 from install CD then over net where I have the install repo locally. IE full install. Had to use a USB CD drive and change bios to boot from it. No biggy. > Incidentally, it was only about last week that I discovered I > could upgrade both the RAM (to the 2 GB it has now) and the SD card (from > the 4 GB I had to the 8 GB now). That has of course made everything since > seem better. > Oh, how do you unsoldier the drive? My understanding is this unit has the drive hard wired........ I have /root and /home on the 8Gb SD card and /boot, /var, and a 2Gb swap on the 4Gb SSD.