[mythtv-users] Quick-boot linux?

[Brian Wood]

Ronald Frazier wrote:
>> How long does your distro take to boot into MythFrontend?
> 
> About a 80-90 seconds. This is a debian lenny box doing a diskless boot.
> 
>> Can anyone recommend a cut-down distro that would boot in under 20 secs
>> straight into Myth...is that possible at the moment?
> 
> One way is to use suspend to ram. That the approach I'm taking. Then
> you only have to tolerate a full reboot time if the power goes out.
> 

I think that's about the only solution for <20 sec., at least within any 
reasonable budget.

A "hybrid" drive would speed things up, but not that much.

beww