[H-GEN] HEADS UP: Debian for Kids

[Michael Anthon]

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> Yeah sure. I am coming with a 486 SX machine, and my normal machine. So
> between us and a few other people there I have talked to we should be able
to
> get something going.  I am going to have a fiddle with the packages myself
> over the next week or so, and have it ready for testing at the meeting.
>
Ouch ! That will be one slow machine.  I run an old 486DX100 with 20M as my
gateway here and while it's suiteable for the job it's pretty slow.  I would
suggest that you should do all your configuration and installation on a
faster machine and then transfer the drive or an image of it to the slower
machine.  As an example, to run 'dpkg -i some-little-package' on the DX
takes roughly 2-3 minutes.  Doing an install from scratch on one of these
machine is painfully tedious [1].

Cheers
Michael
[1] Trust me, I know [2]
[2] Although not as tedious as on the old Sun IPC.. took about 30 minutes to
get some packages at a humbug meeting and then about 24 hours to install
them 8^)



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