Re: distro for 486 with 32 MB ram

[Celejar <celejar@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:05:48 +0200
Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 do know you can run aptitude from commandline, right?

I believe that it still takes much longer than apt-get to initialize on
old hardware.

Celejar