Hi all,
This is in reference to a Ubuntu 5.10 'Breezy Badger'
installation. I have a p 1.8 Ghz 128 168-pin 266 mhz DDR RAM but it
takes more than 5 minutes from booting up to come to functional desktop.
A. How can I shorten the time to boot up? I searched a little bit on
the net & some of the things said are :-
1. Disabling whatever services are not needed.
Looked at System > Services
there are five services running & two of them
have similar names
a. anacron & cron now is there any
differences between these two loggers & if yes, which is better for what?
b. Similarly klogd & syslogd is there a
difference between them?
2. It's told that OpenOffice has a prefix flag, which also takes
memory can this be disabled or not?
3. There are supposed to be many devices, services which are in the
kernel & one can re-compile the kernel to be small. Any good howto about
this. I ran vmstat 5 10 just on the desktop as well after opening
mahjong, the game the so (swap out I guess) didn't change much. It was 0
before & only showed couple of instances of some no. in so otherwise 0.
So I guess memory is o.k.
4. I remember in XP I had to turn DMA on my hard disk to get good
results while accessing the hard disc. How to check if DMA is on in
Ubuntu? Maybe that could be the reason. Would be thankful for any help
in this regard
B. Has anybody made a local repository of Breezy Badger 5.10 what
I'm interested is in bug-fixes & multimedia codecs & if possible any USB
modules if they work? Somebody mentioned a USBnet module has anybody got
this particular to work? If yes, from where to get it, installation &
configuration instructions for it. Also any bug-fixes. As right now not
able to work D-Link 502T with Linux the only option remaining is using
XP to download stuff so instructions that way. I remember downloading
rpm packages & just giving rpm -ivh filename & the file used to get
installed. In Ubuntu dpkg does this the filename would be ending in
*.deb or something else. I ask as there is supposed to be difference
between deb for Ubuntu & for Debian Sarge. Is this true? If yes, then is
there any way to know the difference between 2 deb files if one gets it
from somewhere?
C. The below is the result from the command df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda12 6.6G 1.5G 5.1G 23% /
tmpfs 59M 0 59M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 59M 13M 46M 22%
/lib/modules/2.6.12-9-386/volatile
/dev/hda14 8.9G 37M 8.9G 1% /home
/dev/hda1 4.0G 3.8G 175M 96% /media/C
/dev/hda10 7.8G 6.0G 1.9G 76% /media/I
/dev/hda11 7.8G 6.4G 1.5G 82% /media/J
/dev/hda5 7.8G 5.9G 2.0G 75% /media/D
/dev/hda6 7.8G 7.1G 736M 91% /media/E
/dev/hda7 7.8G 5.9G 2.0G 75% /media/F
/dev/hda8 7.8G 6.5G 1.4G 83% /media/G
/dev/hda9 7.8G 6.5G 1.4G 84% /media/H
/dev/hdc 570M 570M 0 100% /media/cdrom0
the one which I'm interested is in /dev/hda 14 of /home where 37 MB
is supposed to be used by /home when I looked at the contents from /home
it showed me no. of items & all close to 5 MB where is all the rest
going, Mind u that in Nautilus I had given to show all the hidden files.
Is something still being hidden or Nautilus is showing some wrong info
or is there something else. I had sometime back had 5.04's /home in the
same drive with a different username. After chmod as sudo was able to
delete that folder & from 47 it now shows 37. This is when I was using
the old system for around 2 months. Can somebody guide me on this?
Thanx in
advance.
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Shirish Agarwal
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