Re: Life at 4 bogomips
> Oh, I agree. Note that I am installing a pretty minimum system anyway. It
> was not the size of the packages I was complaining about, it was the the
> debian utils seem to be rather inefficient. I imagine anoyone installing
> on a 486 would see the same things.
>
> My biggest peeve was the "redetection" of modules every time you installed
> one in the kernel configuration section of the install. That took nearly
> two minutes to complete each time. Seems to me it could remember which
> modules it "detected" 10 seconds ago. That alone would shave nearly 20
> minutes off the initial install.
I have a 486 here with 16MB RAM. I make only a rescue disk, the driver disk and base file is on the hd already. It takes less than 5 minutes to install on it. Yes, I'm serious -- I timed it.
Regards
Sarel Botha
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