-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all. A couple of days ago, I grabbed the debian stable netinst cd-rom image, and attempted to install debian on to a machine using that image. The machine is old, a Pentium running at 133 MHz, with 64 megs of ram, with no dvd drive, just a cd-rom drive. The installation went on for over 24 hours, and I powered off the box at that point, before it completed. Part of that time was spent idling overnight, waiting at the popularity contest question. Downloading standard packages, and updates, is also a contributing factor here. All that aside, while things would probably have gone faster if I had used a dvd, or had my own debian mirror locally, I think the major bottle neck here is the age, and abilities of the machine in question. I recall someone on here saying that the only distro that person could install on his old laptop is slackware. This then begs the question, is slackware the only distro that can still be installed on older hardware in a reasonable amount of time, (say 3-5 hours from start to finish), or are there others? Thanks for any feedback. Greg - -- web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc skype: gregn1 (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) - -- Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAku7kDAACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyDGeACgqm4SMF44C1uCsm34IhFmXNg2 BJkAnRCwtbySVB0QRmIqK04V87q7kqMm =eKmF -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
