Clock synchro at bootup

[hagen]

Vincent Trouilliez schrieb:

>>I've got also a question concerning clock synchronisation at boot time.
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>>I don't want to disable the connection to the server, but sometimes, 
>>when I'm booting my laptop without an existing network, it is for me a 
>>little bit frustrating in front of users of the "other system" to wait 
>>for more than a minute until the boot process continues...;-(
>>
>>Is there any option somewhere to shorten the time, the machine is 
>>waiting for connection to the server?
>>
>>Hagen
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>I seem to remember seeing the exact same question some time ago.
>I think the answer was that DHCP is sometimes very slow to respond, so
>they put a very long time out, as a consequence.
>I think there is a way to specify a shorter time out. 
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>Search the archive, or wait for someone with a better recollection of
>the detailled procedure than me, to speak up... ;o)
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>Vince
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Hi, Vince,

thanks for the tip...

you have have to press <STRG><C> simultanly

to interrupt waiting for the ntp-server...

Hagen