On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 10:09 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Tony Pitman wrote: > > As I said I am all the way to the point of extracting the base debs from > > the basedebs.tar file. The problem is that it has been on that dialog for > > about an hour now. Is this normal? I know it is a slow machine, but should > > it really take this long to extract? > > > > If this is typical, can someone tell me how long IS too long? How long > > should I give it before I figure something is wrong? If something is wrong, > > what do I do about it? > > A few days ago we got a report that it took 8 days on an older Mac. Your Quadra > should be faster ;-) That guy's box had 8MB RAM. Oh, and it was an SE/30, I think. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "Go not unto the Usenet for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (and quite a few things that just have nothing at all to do with the question)." Unknown
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