> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ellick Chan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 12:28 AM
> To: AA/MandrakeExpert
> Subject: Re: [expert] SLOW boot
>
>
> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Gil Baron W0MN wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 22:22:31 -0500
> > From: Gil Baron W0MN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > To: AA/MandrakeExpert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [expert] SLOW boot
> >
> > My boot proceeds pretty well until it gets to the starting AMD
> stage. What
> > is AMD and why would it take over 1 minute at times? Sometimes it is
> > instantaneous or nearly so.
> >
> According to the manpage of amd, it is an automatic filesystem mounter,
> that fakes itself as an nfs server, I have had similar symtoms in the
> past, but stopped using amd. The mere act of faking an nfs server is
> probably the reason for it's erratic behavior, as conditions such as
> network connectivity, and other such variables become hard to juggle.
> Another possible cause is an error in /etc/hosts, as it heavily relies on
> this file. My recommendation is to disable it entirely.
How?
TIA.
>
> > --
> > Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/
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> > "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
> >
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Ellick Chan
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Jul 17
>
>
