On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 09:11:50PM -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > as far as 68k goes, i have tried a couple test things: > 1) using emile rescue disk to boot about triples my machines speed,
Is that the Debian-packaged version? On what machine? > (it expands to a mini system on a ram disk of about 10MB) > > 2) even after mknod /dev/sda6 mounting and chrooting it still seems faster. Cool. > 3) when i installed sarge i went for the most basic install, came out to > around 150mb to my relief as on powerpc it is more like 400, and etch > seems to have increased size by around 50%. Yes; m68k has always had an instruction set which is rather easy and does not require a lot of opcodes; as a result, binaries are much smaller, on average. > 4) my own plans for now i am not trying to work with Xwindows but i > want some decent programming suite of tools and i am shooting > for around 400 MB total size What type of programming? I do think this should be possible, but it very much depends on what you want to do. -- <Lo-lan-do> Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
