On Monday 11 September 2006 16:14, Roshan wrote:
Do you know how much time it actually takes to start a live CD on a P4 with 128 MB RAM?
my reply has little relevance to the topic, but I would like to share this information.
It is approximately 7 minutes for the GNOME desktop to load on my P4 248 MB (256 -8 Video Memory) using Ubuntu 6.06 Live CD / and KDE on Kubuntu 6.06 Live Cd. (right from *Boot from Cd...* till the final screen of stability, where the mouse moves smoothly)
P4 2.8CGHz with HT Northwood 800MHz FSB. 256MB single channel DDR400 will load Ubuntu dapper drake(?) in about 3 minutes _inside_ QEMU with the proprietary plugin loaded ( fast-qemu?? ) :)
Dunno why it takes 7 minutes on real world machines. The QEMU machine has only 192MB RAM available at its disposal.