how to speed up knoppix after debian install for newbie

[baddemanax]

Hi,

I just installed knoppix 4 on a old IBM T20 laptop ( 128MB ram) with the debian like settings.

Everything I need works fine.

The drawback is the booting time which is 2 times slower than my previous window$

And also like in window$ i have the feeling that a lot of process are running that i don't need.

is there a way to speed things up a lot?

I also try to boot with another desktop than KDE, like fluxbox, but the 128 MB ram are full and the system is constantly doing paging.


I know that it is possible to have a lighter linux ( like Damn small linux or other), but is there a way to tune knoppix to get something in between ?

regards.

[mtodorov_69]

Hi!

Try looking into

/etc/rc2.d /etc/rc3.d ... /etc/rc{your runlevel}.d directories.

There are links to /etc/init.d/* startup scripts. Here is nearly all the magic.

root@llod-zion:/home/mtodorov# more /etc/rc2.d/README
The scripts in this directory are executed each time the system enters
this runlevel.

The scripts are all symbolic links whose targets are located in
/etc/init.d/ .

To disable a service in this runlevel, rename its script in this directory
so that the new name begins with a 'K' and a two-digit number, where the
number is the difference between the two-digit number following the 'S'
in its current name, and 100. To re-enable the service, rename the script
back to its original name beginning with 'S'.

For a more information see /etc/init.d/README.
root@llod-zion:/home/mtodorov#

Enjoy,

Marvin