> Oh, I agree. Note that I am installing a pretty minimum system anyway. It > was not the size of the packages I was complaining about, it was the the > debian utils seem to be rather inefficient. I imagine anoyone installing > on a 486 would see the same things. > > My biggest peeve was the "redetection" of modules every time you installed > one in the kernel configuration section of the install. That took nearly > two minutes to complete each time. Seems to me it could remember which > modules it "detected" 10 seconds ago. That alone would shave nearly 20 > minutes off the initial install.
I have a 486 here with 16MB RAM. I make only a rescue disk, the driver disk and base file is on the hd already. It takes less than 5 minutes to install on it. Yes, I'm serious -- I timed it. Regards Sarel Botha
