No. Problem is not with X start up since it works fine without 4fs file. Problem is with the installer and login. I have reinstalled 5.4 PAE Opera on one of my computer and it has no such issue. It works fine and fast with or without 4fs file.

At login [...]:root [tty1] screen there is about a minute delay.

At starting X .... screen delay is about 2 minutes.

During the delays HD is busy (led is on). This should not happen.

Boot is always successful. On a computer with a ssd it take more than 2 minutes to boot. On other computer boot takes 4-5 minuter and there is a lot of hd activity that should not be there since sfs file is in ram. No change after a number of boots. If I delete my 4fs file then boot takes less than ...

I installed slacko 5.5 PAE using the most recent exe installer on my windows 7 computer. It works fine and fast till I save my setup before I reboot. If I save my setup in an ext4 520MB file then next boot takes 5 minutes. Therefore, there is some thing wrong with the installer. It works fine if I ...

Beem: So your suggestion is to go with a SATA II Hard Drive instead of SSD?

My computer is Zotac zbox (http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/10/zotacs-zbox-hd-id11-starts-shipping-for-250/) It has a SDcard slot ang my 4x SDcard is in that slot.

My question: Say I buy a SATA II HD and install quirky on ...

I am running quirky 1.2 from a sdcard. My computer has a dual core processor and 2G ram. Sdcard is 16G. Quirky is frugal installed. System works fast. Boot and shutdown is a bit slow.

I am thinking to get a 32G SSD and install quirky on that to speed up the system. I think that will speed up the ...