Re: Life at 4 bogomips

[Carl Mummert <mummert@cs.wcu.edu>]

>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