How to speed up startup?

[R Kimber]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005 14:46:11 +0100
Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:37:36PM +0800, Shixin Zeng wrote:
> > The system startup takes a very long time. In particular, hotplug
> > takes about 20 seconds to finish on my box, while takes several
> > seconds on my roommate's.
> > The hardware are almost the same powerful, on some degree, my
> > hardware is more powerful than his. So I can't understand why my
> > hoary startup is much slower than his. The possible significant
> > difference is: My box, sid(installed 2 years ago)->warty->hoary;
> > and his, warty->hoary.
> 
> Did you install the ubuntu-base package, including grepmap?

How may one do that without removing exim? 

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber
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