Speeding up boot times

[Jon P. Inghram]

AmigaDOS!

[Jorden]

I'm still a little bit confused as to which boot Steve wants to speed up. The Windows booting or his car boot?

Jord.

[Wombat]

If you're using it as an MP3 machine, why not use Linux? I have a friend who did the MP3-car thing, and it works quite nicely. It would also make it easier to log into the machine w/o removing it from the trunk. There's lots of HOW-TO's out there on the web.

[Technoid]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by xortam:

Originally posted by Jorden:
Added the link to the FAQs, with credit to Technoid </font>

Not meaning to take away from Technoid's day in the Sun but ... I already had the Max Speed bookmark. Probably added it after Brian the Terrible (DV) posted it last winter or more likely when Rik posted it in January. Guess I should spend some time and see what this site has to offer.

I did also get it from the forums a loong time ago

[xortam]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Technoid:

I did also get it from the forums a loong time ago </font>

I'm not sure how long its been in my bookmarks. I just did a forum search to find out when I might have grabbed it. I realized that I never got around to looking through the site even though it looks like it might have some interesting things to offer. I seem to spend most of my time on this site or poking around my system myself to determine how to manage Windows; otherwise, I just go to the MSFT knowledgebase.

[DentyCracker]

BeOS is what you really need.

[Wombat]

http://www.cajun.nu/

[Guyver]

OpenBIOS - auto/fast boot Linux direct from BIOS chip - about 2-4 seconds for complete bootup.

http://www.acl.lanl.gov/linuxbios/index.html

May not be a current help, but it's at least interesting.

Also there is FreeBIOS looking to make improvements on Proprietary BIOS solutions.

http://freebios.sourceforge.net/

May or may not help - but it's there..

Guyver

[Jorden]

For xortam and Technoid, before we see hairs and testosteron flying: Check this

Jord.

[xortam]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Jorden:
For xortam and Technoid, before we see hairs and testosteron flying: Check this

Jord.</font>

Why would you put that crap into an FAQ?

P.S. And while you're cleaning up the FAQs, do something about that DivX nonsense (It's pay-per-view! ).

[This message has been edited by xortam (edited 22 May 2001).]

[Indiana]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by xortam:
[BP.S. And while you're cleaning up the FAQs, do something about that DivX nonsense (It's pay-per-view! ).[/B]</font>

Yes, and while you're at it please add to the FAQ the MPEG4 / DivX;-) patch that allows non-multiple-of-32 (is that a word! ) movies to use overlays...



[This message has been edited by Indiana (edited 22 May 2001).]

[Jorden]

Sigh... nooit tevreden...

Okay, who has links for me for the MPEG4/DivX patch etc.?

Jord.

[This message has been edited by Jorden (edited 22 May 2001).]

[xortam]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Jorden:
Sigh... nooit tevreden...

Okay, who has links for me for the MPEG4/DivX patch etc.?</font>

That's right! Who can be content with garbage?

AFA a link ... check the front page: DivXG400 .

[Jorden]

The Archives I cannot alter, but the FAQs I can!

And I did change something, some time ago.

The latest DivX thread in the FAQs

Check the date

Jord.

[This message has been edited by Jorden (edited 22 May 2001).]

[xortam]

<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" size="2">Originally posted by Jorden:
The Archives I cannot alter, but the FAQs I can! ...</font>

How can you manage the FAQs if you can't edit the FAQ Archive? You need to work on that.