Fedora Desktop System Boot Time

[David Curry]

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.
>
>		Dave
>
>  
>
Thanks, Dave.