[H-GEN] HEADS UP: Debian for Kids

[David Findlay]

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On Wed, 25 Jul 2001 12:27, Michael Anthon hit his keyboard with his head and 
the result was this:
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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

Yes I know it will be slow, but that is the requirement. Remember it's gotta 
run on donated machine, although these are the minimum requirements.

> 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].

I will build it on my big machine, and the load it on the smaller one.

David

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