Re: Life at 4 bogomips
Another thing to think about might be NFSing what you need from another
machine. Use the 386 as what amounts to (almost) a diskless client that
gets all its files off another machine except /boot.
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Carl Mummert wrote:
> >Well I got the old 386 put back together, figured I would use it for a
> >firewall. 386SX33 with 10MB of RAM. Man, what an example to show what OS
> >bloat has done! I used to install Win31 on it, even installed OS/2 Warp
> >on it. Now it is running Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W.
>
> >In dselect the Scanning available packages .......... part puts out about
> >one dot every three seconds.
>
> That's life. Some of the time may be due to slower disk i/o, some of it
> is due to dpkg thinking as is copies information into /var/lib/dpkg/available.
>
> I would recommend that you just forget about dselect, and install what you
> need by hand.
>
> Carl
>
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