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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Sindi Keesan wrote:
> >
> > I discovered that BL3 has no logout along with no login.  
> 
> exit

I might make an alias to use logout, pointing to 'exit'.

> > Does Bl3 boot faster than Bl2-hard-disk?
> 
> I haven't timed it, but I wouldn't be surprised if BL3 were
> faster (even though it first creates a ramdisk, boots initfs
> and searches for fs.img before booting the root filesystem).

It seems to run faster online, maybe because of the ramdisk.

> 
> > If you want me to do any more experiments with file download 
> > let me know.  
> 
> Try it with the pppd in Slackware 4.0.
I did and it fixed my problem.

> 
> > When I do a find from / it takes rather a long while and might 
> > be accessing the entire c: partition rather than just c:\baslin.  
> 
> Yes, it is accessing the entire DOS partition.
> 
> > Is there any easy way to just find in the area used for linux?  
> 
> The easiest way is to do the find on just the directories that
> interest you.  For example:
> -------------------------
> find /usr -name whatever
> find /bin -name whatever
> find /sbin -name whatever
> -------------------------
> It would be pretty simple to put that all in a script.
> 
> Cheers,
> Steven
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