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Lou
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#21 Post by Lou »

ethyrdude wrote: I decided to download a new netinstall iso, I couldn't find one for unstable so I downloaded the new etch installer,
If you put 'expert26' at the prompt (at the beginning of the install), it will give you a choice of stable, testing, and unstable. Skip the packages section, do a update/dist-upgrade, and install xfce4 and whatever else you fancy.

From button press on to login takes 30 seconds but I'm not using any gui for the login. once I log in, it takes 2 seconds to show the user prompt. I then type in "startxfce4" which I will automate later and 12 seconds later Xfce4 is fully loaded. I was using Fluxbox and DR17 (Enlightenment) but I decided to go with the mouse.
just put this in your .xinitrc:

#!/bin/sh

<whatever app you also want to start> &
xfce4-session

save/exit
startx

I did it with a business card iso (37 MB):

http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=11822

as for booting time, i'm down to 24 seconds after POST to login. I installed 'sysvconfig' and disabled:

ifupdown
networking
openbsd-inetd
rc.local

of course this is strictly subjective, i got dhcp, no lan . :)
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#22 Post by michael7 »

From the grub menu to the login menu, 20 seconds.

I'm running the standard Etch 64-bit version on an AMD64 Dual Core box with 2 GB of RAM. This is the fastest booting OS I have ever used.
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#23 Post by gillbates »

michael7 wrote:From the grub menu to the login menu, 20 seconds.

I'm running the standard Etch 64-bit version on an AMD64 Dual Core box with 2 GB of RAM. This is the fastest booting OS I have ever used.
which cd image did you use.. my cd testing/etch hanged while trying to boot from similar amd Ath-X2, I gb ram. then i put 32bit in there... :roll:

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#24 Post by michael7 »

gillbates,
I used a "daily built" netinst cd image for the "amd64" architecture that I downloaded from www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer . The kernel I'm booting is the standard 2.6.18-3-amd64.

On another partition, I've installed the i386 version for comparison. The amd64 is faster. I wrote a HOWTO on the i386 installation which you can find at: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=11280
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#25 Post by ethyrdude »

Actually Lou, I did use the expert install and I was surprised that it didn't ask me but then considering I downloaded the new etch net installer, it's not surprising. I was given a choice of which kernel to install - 2.6.8 or 2.6.17-2 and a choice of i486 or i686, I would have preferred i386 0r k7, but as they weren't offered, I chose 686 and then upgraded to 2.6.19.2 custom and selected k7 for my processor as it is an Athlon XP. My debian install is pretty mean and lean now, I did end up installing xdm and set up an .xsession file in my home directory to tell it to start xfce, one more way to skin a cat.

The netinstall iso was 150 megs, about five minutes to download on cable DSL, and I liked the graphics install a bit better than the first time I installed it. One thing that threw me for a second was the language choices, utf-8 or not, I chose utf-8 because that was what I learned the standard is now. Other than that, things went really smoothly. I really wasn't kidding when I said Debian was easier to install than Windows, and much faster too.
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#26 Post by thamarok »

My booting time is now 5-7 seconds.. Yeah, very small time to get from BIOS to the login prompt.. and that only because of the 2.6.20 kernel..

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#27 Post by Lou »

ethyrdude wrote:Actually Lou, I did use the expert install and I was surprised that it didn't ask me but then considering I downloaded the new etch net installer, it's not surprising. I was given a choice of which kernel to install - 2.6.8 or 2.6.17-2 and a choice of i486 or i686, I would have preferred i386 0r k7, but as they weren't offered, I chose 686 and then upgraded to 2.6.19.2 custom and selected k7 for my processor as it is an Athlon XP. My debian install is pretty mean and lean now, I did end up installing xdm and set up an .xsession file in my home directory to tell it to start xfce, one more way to skin a cat.
Indeed, there are more ways to skin a cat; .xsession has to go to xinit in order to start, that's why i use .xinit instead of .xsession. :) As for not giving you a choice, i don't know, maybe it has to do with the graphic install or the new installer.
The netinstall iso was 150 megs, about five minutes to download on cable DSL, and I liked the graphics install a bit better than the first time I installed it. One thing that threw me for a second was the language choices, utf-8 or not, I chose utf-8 because that was what I learned the standard is now. Other than that, things went really smoothly. I really wasn't kidding when I said Debian was easier to install than Windows, and much faster too.
I haven't used the latest rc netinstall, now that i discovered the business card with 37 MB, i doubt i'll use anything else. My download speed is not as good as yours, mine is (130 kb/s download speed or 1.2 Ghz overall speed). As long as you get what you want in the way is easier for you, all is well. :)
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#28 Post by Burnside »

Well, I followed your example, Lou, and used sysvconfig to turn off the services I don't need at startup.

My PIII 700 with 160 MB of RAM have been averaging about 20 seconds from me pushing the button to console. X takes about 7 seconds to boot into Openbox which is a little slower then I'd like, but still not bad. :)

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#29 Post by Lou »

Burnside wrote:
My PIII 700 with 160 MB of RAM have been averaging about 20 seconds from me pushing the button to console.
You're doing better than me :) Although, icewm and ratpoison are in like flynn in <2 seconds
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#30 Post by ethyrdude »

Wow, that's really fast Burnside, for a PIII. I notice there is one parameter I haven't considered when thinking speed and that is HDD interface - IDE/SATA/SCSI.
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#31 Post by _FOCUS_ »

I didn't keep my booting time. Sometime I am restarting and when I restart mta isn't appear as normal boot. So it takes shorter than 1 minutes. Mta is making long booting.

My processor is 2,66 celeron :( ( I wish amd 64)
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#32 Post by DeanLinkous »

debian etch - default install of desktop/standard/laptop tasks
nothing tweaked except maybe a couple applets I killed
hp omnibook 6000 laptop
PIII 700mhz
256mb ram

from post to GDM login - about 35-40sec
(could probably be tweaked and cleaned up a bit and get it even lower)

from gdm login to gnome desktop - about 15sec

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#33 Post by _FOCUS_ »

this morning I was preparing to come and decided to learn my booting time. This is my chance . Linux started to file system check. But I didn't give up. From grub to gdm it took 1, 35 second :lol: from grub to completely log in took 1,56 second. :lol:
amazing . isn't it?
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#34 Post by happy-and-lost »

Grub -> Full GNOME desktop: 1 minute exactly

On a 1GHz Duron with 350MB RAM. Once loaded, the desktop only utilises 45MB RAM (Full GNOME. Why does the clock applet use nearly 10MB?!). It's a work in progress, I hope to get it faster and lighter.

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#35 Post by matino »

~33 secs from grub to KDE desktop

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#36 Post by e1even1 »

etch. i setup kdm autologin and the grub menu is a 3 second timeout. from the front panel power switch to wallpaper is 52 seconds. that includes preloading 2 instances of konqueror, no exim, and 4 vmware demons. no ntp.

personally, i don't mind waiting a little for it to boot. i wouldn't care if it took 3 minutes to boot. as long as it runs as well as it does after it's up.

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#37 Post by llivv »

from xfve I reboot, it takes 26 seconds to shutdown I see BIOS post at 30 seconds, Grub splash shows up at 46 seconds( it's still looking for grub on the floppy), kernel finishes loading at a minute 20 seconds, I'm back in the desktop at 1 minute 42 seconds after entering my user and pass.
I'll take that for a default desktop install :wink:
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#38 Post by Pobega »

Including the BIOS and GRUB screen: 27 seconds
Without the BIOS and GRUB screen: 17 seconds

Pretty good times in my opinion, I've never gotten an operating system to boot as fast as Debian does. All I have left to do is recompile my own kernel, and build the ipw3945 modules into it for maximum boot speed.

I no longer use a display manager so I don't have any times for that. I just tend to use startx instead.
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