On 12/27/2014 7:20 PM, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 14:02:52 -0500 > Jerry Stuckle <stuckleje...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 12/11/2014 1:23 PM, Brian wrote: >>> On Thu 11 Dec 2014 at 12:11:26 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote: > >>>> I often give presentations with my notebook. If I'm lucky, I get 10-15 >>>> minutes to set up. If I'm not, less than 5 minutes (i.e. another >>>> presenter ahead of me). I use Linux whenever possible, but since my >>>> time slot is limited, I can't wait for fsck to complete. >>> >>> Your type of situation is well understood and there is sympathy for it. >>> >>> >> >> I appreciate that - but unfortunately, sympathy doesn't solve the problem :) > > Someone may have suggested this, and I know it doesn't really solve the > core problem, but perhaps consider suspending (to disk or ram) instead > of shutting down when you have a presentation scheduled? > > Celejar > >
That's a fine idea if I'm booted into that OS previously. But I have several development systems on here I use for client work, and the OS I use for presentations is pretty vanilla. The last thing I need is to find out just before a presentation that I screwed up a device driver and the OS won't boot :) Jerry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/549f59b7.70...@gmail.com
