How to speed up the boot process?

[ELMIT]

What is the best way to shorten the boot process?

My application does not need graphic. Which packages are for graphic? Or is there a description for each packages available?


bye

Ronald Wiplinger

[MU]

the best way:
copy usr_cram.fs to where your pup001 is stored.

From the harddrive, it loads much faster than from CD.
Mark

[ELMIT]

The target is a CF card to boot from. I don't have a hard drive, nor a CD drive then.

1.08 takes about 90 seconds from the CF. Since we do not use a monitor, this is a terrible long time !!! We use an audio signal instead when it is ready, since the GIOP did not compile (yet).


bye

Ronald Wiplinger

[MU]

do you boot from usb?
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.p ... light=ehci

But I don't know, if that still is valid in Puppy 108.

To stop the Xserver from starting, rename
/usr/X11R6/bin/xwin to xwin-old.
Mark

[rarsa]

My application does not need graphic.

Since you explain that your application does not need graphics or a monitor, Why did you decide to use puppy? wouldn't it be better to use another minimalist distribution that only has console?

Any way, to answer your question. Am I correct assuming that what you want to do is to remaster puppy to create a smaller usr_cram.fs that would boot faster?

If you follow the remaster process you will have a very good idea of what you want to remove by looking at the size of the unleashed packages, the names are quite descriptive.

For example, Mozilla uses 9 MB and Xorg components almost 8 MB too. There with two packages you will be cutting almost 20 MB

You can get a list of packages currently included in the liveCD by executing the following

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grep " on " /root/.packages/unleashedpackages.txt > /root/installed.txt

this will generate a list of packages installed including the description and size.

We cannot tell you what packages to remove because we don't know what you want to use puppy for.

[ELMIT]

I am still doing something wrong!

I used createpuppy. The last time now with a new extracted /mnt/home/puppy
Not added nor deleted any packages.

Near the end of createpuppy I see:

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The size in bytes of usr_cram.fs is saved in /root0/.etc/sizeusrcram.
This is used during bootup to verify correct version of usr_cram.fs found.
...note, size is 32321536 bytes.
Now extracting usr_cram.fs as a separate file, not inside image.gz...
...done
Making ext2 filesystem on rootfs-tmp2/, size 13824 Kbytes...
13824+0 records in
13824+0 records out
mke2fs 1.34 (25-Jul-2003)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=1024 (log=0)
Fragment size=1024 (log=0)
3456 inodes, 13824 blocks
0 blocks (0.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=1
2 block groups
8192 blocks per group, 8192 fragments per group
1728 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks: 
        8193

Writing inode tables: done                            
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 38 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first.  Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
Copying everything from rootfs-tmp1/ to rootfs-tmp2/...
(I hope the partition still has enough space!)
...Errors here mean the size 13824 Kbytes allocated to rootfs-tmp2/,
   which will become file image then image.gz, is not big enough.
   You will need to remove files or use UPX.
   Note the kernel is compiled with ramdisk size of 12288K, but can be
   overridden by the boot parameter "ramdisk_size="

If error msgs above, press "e" key then ENTER key for diagnostics.
If no errors, Press ENTER to continue script: e

Error diagnostic:
Partition mounted on /mnt/home has 23063992
986 Kbytes free space.
12288K ext2 filesystem "image" mounted via /dev/loop2 on ./rootfs-tmp2
has 986 Kbytes free.
Either of these being full is the cause of the trouble.
Deleting rootfs-tmp2 directory...
Exiting script...

What does it mean? How to solve?


bye

Ronald Wiplinger

[ELMIT]

I changed rootfs-complete/etc/ramdiskfssize to 15724 Kbytes.

Still I get:

...Errors here mean the size 15724 Kbytes allocated to rootfs-tmp2/,
which will become file image then image.gz, is not big enough.
You will need to remove files or use UPX.
Note the kernel is compiled with ramdisk size of 12288K, but can be
overridden by the boot parameter "ramdisk_size="