Originally Posted By: hybrid8
Under a minute is good, 2 minutes not so much. 10-30 seconds would be much much better. smile I'd probably prefer to sacrifice any kind of GUI for faster boot time, so long as I can still get what I need up and running: Squeezebox server, SAMBA, WiFi in ad-hoc mode.

If you find it easier to configure that stuff via GUI, you can set up your linux box to boot to desktop until you get your installation to a stable state, then disable the GUI stuff by changing the default runlevel in /etc/inittab, upstart, or whatever your selected distro uses. Alternatively, if you have an ssh server running on the box, you can also 'ssh -X' into it to run things that use a GUI.