A question on commands - faster startup / starting desktop

[David Timms]

Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> FC5_64
> 
> It is much faster booting without GUI to "Init 3" and then start X. 
> After login "startx" will start Gnome desktop.  What will be the
> corrects commands to start;
> 
> - KDE desktop
> - Safe desktop
> - selecting language
I don't know the answer to that, but you might like to try booting 
runlevel 5, but without rhgb (redhat graphical boot). There was some 
improvements planned in FC testing, but they missed FC5. The delay is 
due to the fact that X is started once for the rhgb display and again 
for the actual login. I haven't done a timed comparison of the boot 
duration, but it definitely seems faster. In /boot/grub/grub.conf remove 
the text rhgb from the kernel that is currently getting booted.

DaveT.