an observation, and question

[Gregory Nowak]

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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


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