Slow boot. Is there anyway to make it faster?

[tripper22]

I have Bea final. During the boot process I hit f1 and see starting up ... for approx 1 minute or so. Is this normal? Is there a way I can speed up the boot process?

Thanks in advance!

[900i]

My install takes about 1 min to get to the Desktop, for speed tweaking I always use something along the lines of this,

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=107856

or this

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=89491&highlight=network+printer