[vdr] Fast booting - was: Re: Re: Newbie Q: anything else than Suse?

[Marc Haisenko <marc.haisenko@software-for-people.com>]

On Tuesday 07 May 2002 13:03, you wrote:
> vdr@olivierjacques.com wrote:
> > - Who installed VDR and other components on another distrib?
>
> me
>
> > - Which one (name and release)?
>
> Slackware 8.0
>
> > - Any special "hints" to make it compile/run on this distrib?
>
> nothing than the normal installation
>
> > - Which one would your recommend (again, except Suse)?
> >
> > I was about to go for The Mandrake 8.2...
>
> nooo Mandrake is too big for this, it's WELL suited for a desktop
> system, not a set-top-boxed one.
>
> With Slackware I have 42seconds boot time including bios etc; tweaking a
> bit the startup scripts would require even less.
>
>
>
> bye
> as

How about the Linux from Scratch Project (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) ? 
It involves some work but IMHO you can't boot any faster ;-) I've set up an 
Set-Top Box here at work with it and because I have a far better control over 
what gets on the system and how it is booted I managed to make a small Linux 
that boots in about 10-15 seconds (without X, of course). 
I later found an easier way to set up a fast booting customized Linux: I 
installed a SuSE 7.3 with just the packages I needed and replaces SuSEs Init 
script with the ones from Linux from Scratch. That eliminates the use of that 
strange rc.config and other stuff and boots about as fast as my attempt with 
a complete Linux from Scratch system, but is much faster and easier to set up 
and much easier to maintain. I'm pretty sure the process is strait-forward 
with any other distro as well.
C'ya,
	Marc

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