slow startup without network

[Keith Burton]

On Saturday 11 February 2006 02:27, Michael Shulman wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When booting Ubuntu (breezy) in a network-less situation (i.e.
> unplugged and no wireless around) it takes a very long time starting
> the network interfaces and waiting for them to come up before finally
> realizing they aren't going to.  Is there a way to configure it so it
> can do this waiting in the background and continue booting the system
> meanwhile?
>
> Thanks!!
> Mike

If you mostly boot up without a network, you can change it to not autostart 
the network, which will eliminate that delay.

sudo vi /etc/network/interfaces

Find all the lines that start with "auto" and comment them out, like this:
#auto eth0		(keep track of the names you comment out, like "eth0")

and save/quit.

After your next reboot, you'll have to manually start the network when you 
want it with the command:  sudo ifup eth0    (or whatever the names you 
commented out were).

There's a graphical way to start the network as well, but I'm a Kubuntu user, 
so don't know how it's done in Gnome.

Keith