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Doug Goldstein posted <416EE752.8020009@g.o>, excerpted below, on |
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Thu, 14 Oct 2004 16:53:38 -0400: |
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> Well if you just bootstrapped it. Then that's the first thing you fix if ~ |
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> its SUCH a huge issue! There is an option to adjust it so adjust it. |
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> Gentoo is fully customizable. If you are personally injusticed by the fact |
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> that out of the box Gentoo is set to support anything and everything, then |
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> head else where. As far as taking longer then 10 seconds, try to pull an |
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> IP over a bogged down Sat link. I've seen it take longer then 10. |
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I'd suggest 20 or 30 seconds. That's way better than 60, yet should cover |
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even reasonable extremes. Any "unreasonable" extremes, such as the sat |
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link you mention, could change the defaults as needed, but it would |
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continue to "just work" for the /vast/ majority of folks, while still |
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being easily adjustable (up /or/ down), for those that needed such. |
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20 seconds watching nothing happen on the boot screen is an irritating |
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long wait, but workable. 60 seconds and many will be wondering if |
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something hung, and may press reset. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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