Hi. Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > given the 7 second disk read time... 10 seconds is a bit unrealistic. > One of the critical paths will be getting an IP address and mounting the > /home dir over nfs... ethernet negotiation can easily be 10 seconds > already with gige, and DHCP is depending on that to complete before it > can get a lease. WRT DHCP: why does FC wait in the foreground to get an IP? Is there a magic switch I haven't found yet to make that a background process? It's quite boring to watch my notebook wait for a nonexistent DHCP server because it's location changed from the last boot. -- "Shall I tell you what I want? What I really really want?"