IDEA: Shortening boot-time

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Jeremy Katz wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 12:30 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> > If you would have taken the time to fully read my first mail, then you 
> > would have known that I've concidered this case.
> > 
> > 99% if the non-corperate) desktop users don't use network 
> > authentication, or /home on NFS.
> 
> Unfortunately, you still need networking up before starting *DM since if
> you don't, then your hostname can change and X gets verrryyy unhappy.

And some other things want networking as well. Not to mention that users 
would be very annoyed if they had to wait for an arbitrary amount of time 
after login to browse the net :)

	- Panu -