How to speed up startup?

[Shixin Zeng]

No, I didn't install any of them.
For ubuntu-base depends on a lot of packages that I don't need at all,
such as ppp lvm etc.
As your suggestion, I install grepmap, but I found no differences, at
least at boot time. what is grepmap used for?

I found another package 'discover'. It is discribed as:
hardware identification system
Discover is a hardware identification system based on the libdiscover2
library.  Discover provides a flexible interface that programs can
use to report a wide range of information about the hardware that is
installed on a Linux system.  In addition to reporting information,
Discover includes support for doing hardware detection at boot time.

I've installed it. And it load the proper module, such as snd-ymfpci,
uhci-hcd etc, before the hotplug script start.
So, my question is:
As discover is already load the modules, is it necessary to run
/etc/init.d/hotplug at boot time?
If I disable it, a lot of boot time will be saved.
What is the consequnces if I disable it at boot time. Can I use
hotplug devices, such as USB storage, at running time nomally?
 
On 4/13/05, 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?
> 
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Shixin Zeng