>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
