I know, I know, it's 2.0, but it's all I had a CD for. :) anywho, the other night I sat down and did a fresh install of Debian 2.0 on my old, beastly 386.
yep. 386. The only reason I'm brining this up is because of the recent documentation conflict/arguement/discussion, and the comment that "floppy disks and FTP is best for older machines". I wholehartedly agree. Matter of fact, unless you've got a blazingly fast CDrom, installing off CD is actually really bloody annoying. stats: i386-dx40 20Meg RAM 200Meg HD (16 -- DOS, 24 swap, rest = /) 2x CDROM on a SBPro interface All I really wanted was an environment to play with Perl at home, and after several hours, it was up and running. Because of the SBPro CD, I needed a copy of the drivers disk, at least, but jumping to there before getting a root disk seemed to break things immensly, so a 2-disk + CD install was needed. I would've used FTP, but the beast has no modem. Now, my major complaint is how dpkg handled installing packages off a CD. I'm sorry, but more than an hour to install 20-ish packages is a bit nuts. It's mostly because on a 2xCD, scanning through 1000-ish files takes a freakin' long time! I understand the concept behind why and how dpkg does it this way, but is it really necessary? Please tell me apt does better/smarter... ----- -- Jeremiah Merkl ----- "Bye-Bye-Bickey-Bickey-Bye-Bye-Bickey-Bye-BO!" -- Dale Gribble -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
