Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram
On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:20:40 -0400
Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 04:48:11PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > True enough. You can minimize the effort, though, (if you already
> > haven't) by only using "main".
> Done. Main is still HUGE.
> >
> > What *does* happen when you run *apt-get* on that box?
>
> Don't know. Don't want to mess up aptitude. Once aptitude loads, its
> fine.
You can try 'apt-get install something', using something with deps so
it will prompt you to proceed, and see how long it takes until you get
the prompt (then cancel, so you won't confuse aptitude) and compare it
with 'aptitude install something'.
Celejar
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