Long boot

[NoOp]

On 12/19/2008 06:54 AM, H.S.Rai wrote:
> My laptop (Compaq Prsario V3000, RAM 512 MB, swap 1480 MB, CPU 800
> MHz, Ubuntu 8.10 updated ) takes long time (about 04 minutes):
> 
> Grub prompt  00.0
> Configuring network: start:- 26 sec End:- 1 min 37 sec (wait for 1 min
> 11 sec) ***
> Welcome audio music: 2 min 25 sec
> On getting GUI click on icon of console: 2 min 41 sec
> Appearance of console window: 3 min 41 sec
> Appearance of prompt in console window: 3 min 50 sec
> 
> Can I make network configuring in background?
> 
> or is there any other way to make boot time less?
> 

Possibly. Please post the first 5 lines of:

cat /etc/hosts