Another thing to think about might be NFSing what you need from another machine. Use the 386 as what amounts to (almost) a diskless client that gets all its files off another machine except /boot.
On Sun, 9 May 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: > >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 > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > >
