How do you install debian? Amilcar
On Thu, 2 Oct 2003, Kent West wrote: > I've typically run Debian on x86 hardware and on Mac G3/G4s, and love > Debian. > > A couple of years ago I started dabbling with Sun machines, specifically > Sunblade 100s running Solaris 8 (having never had any Sun/Solaris/other > unix (other than Linux) experience before). Suffice it to say I was not > impressed with Solaris. So last summer I put Debian on one of the > Sunblade 100s for a week or two before it had to be converted back to > Solaris. I didn't have long to play with it, but I liked Debian better > than Solaris on the box. But that was last year, and I really don't have > much memory of it (except that the nfs connection to a Sun server get > hanging the box). > > This year, I've gotten the opportunity to put Debian on a Sunblade 1000 > (with 1GB RAM - whoo-hoo!). However, now that it's running Debian, it > seems awfully sluggish. Of course, it seemed somewhat sluggish under > Solaris 8 also, but I was hoping Debian would make a difference. > However, Debian feels like it's running on a 200MHz Pentium II box. My > 933MHz PIII feels like it runs circles around this Sunblade 1000. > > So are Sunblade 1000s just inherently slower than the average x86 > machines, or is there some tweak that I'm missing, or what? It seems > slower in both console and X. Like for example, I'll do an "apt-get > upgrade", and the downloading of the packages from the net seems about > the same on the two architectures, but when apt starts unpacking and > configuring the packages, it just seems slower on the Sun box. Another > example is when I run "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86"; it just seems > to take 15 or 20 seconds of "thinking" between the command and the > appearance of the ncurses dialog on the Sun, whereas the same command on > my PIII comes up almost instantly. Or when I copy and paste this email > message into a nano session in an xterm window on the Sun box, it draws > each line slow enough that I can almost read it as it's being pasted (to > be fair, I'm a fast reader). > > Thanks for any insight! > > -- > Kent > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
