kubuntu 7.10 is really suks to install !

[Kelly L. Fulks]

roger at rogerchrisman.com wrote:
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> Mounting extra dives?
> Default Kubuntu startup also wasted 45 seconds more on my laptop doing
> fsck on sda1, my Windows XP FAT partition, and then mounted it. I
> don't need that partition auto mounted. I can mount it manually with
> "sudo mount /dev/sda1 /media/sda1" if I want it mounted. I normally do
> not want it mounted. So I commented out the corresponding line in
> /etc/fstab. Now my laptop starts up Kubuntu, to the GUI login screen,
> in 1 minute when I display startup output by hitting Alt+F1, otherwise
> it takes 3 minutes (due to 2 minutes wasted struggling with the black
> screen, I guess).
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Roger, you really don't have to delete the entry from the fstab to keep
it from being mounted at boot time.  And then if you place a zero in the
6th field of the fstab entry, the fsck program will assume that this
filesystem never needs to be checked.  And you can use noauto to keep it
from being automatically mounted at boot time.

So an entry like this would fix your problem of 45 seconds for the fsck
and mounting on sda1:

/dev/sda1 /windows/C vfat
defaults,nls=utf8,umask=007,uid=1000,gid=1000,noauto,rw,user 0 0

This will set the drive up so that it will not be fsck'ed (zero in the
6th field.  It will not be auto-mounted (noauto).  Any user would be
able to mount on demand (user), and by changing the uid, gid, and umask
entries you can control who has access to the data on the drive.

Another option would be to use autofs to mount the drive on demand.
This would take a little more work but is a nice feature of the system.
 With autofs, you would simply be able to change to that directory and
the system would mount it for you (after you do the configuration work)
and would unmount if after it is no longer being used.

Also in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file if you change the word splash to
nosplash on the "kernel" line, your system will not attempt to display a
splash screen (IIRC).  I believe that you also have to remove the word
"quiet" from the kernel line as well.

I hope this helps you resolve your boot problems permanently and maybe
gives you a little extra functionality.
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Kelly L. Fulks
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