<div>Suspend to ram sounds like the way forward but Sarah your EPIA sounds sweet, what hardware exactly are you using?</div>
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<div>I'm trying to achieve a low-power system too.</div>
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<div>Suspend to RAM... does this mean it's drawing a limited amount of power just to keep the system alive? A bit like hibernate?<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/18/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Wood</b> <<a href="mailto:beww@beww.org">beww@beww.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Ronald Frazier wrote:<br>>> How long does your distro take to boot into MythFrontend?<br>><br>> About a 80-90 seconds. This is a debian lenny box doing a diskless boot.<br>
><br>>> Can anyone recommend a cut-down distro that would boot in under 20 secs<br>>> straight into Myth...is that possible at the moment?<br>><br>> One way is to use suspend to ram. That the approach I'm taking. Then<br>
> you only have to tolerate a full reboot time if the power goes out.<br>><br><br>I think that's about the only solution for <20 sec., at least within any<br>reasonable budget.<br><br>A "hybrid" drive would speed things up, but not that much.<br>
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