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On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:59:38 +0900, daid kahl wrote: |
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> I'm pretty sure the kernels used for LiveCDs are absolutely huge because |
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> they just assume you have basically every piece of hardware available, |
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> and thus take much longer to boot (comparing a LiveCD on my machine to |
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> my kernel, maybe 4 to 5 times longer). |
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The kernel itself isn't that large, all the drivers are compiled as |
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modules and anyneeded for booting are stuffed into an initrd. |
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The slow boot times are due to the whole filesystem being stored as a |
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compressed image on a slow medium. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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