I have recently been trying to put Linux on some old machines, most
notably two old Laptops. I only know the specs on one: Dell Inspiron
3000 with 3G HD and 64M, Pentium MMX 266. When I tried to put Debian
Sarge on there it was slow slow slow. More specifically: Booting off the
CD was fine, installing the base system was fine, but booting off the hd
was not. The kernel took forever to come up and installing software took
nearly two days to not even fully complete. Now I'm trying to put Gentoo
on the same machine. For those of you familiar with a Gentoo install,
everything was fine until I chrooted into my new filesystem. Env-update
took about a minute to complete. Now it's been busy unpacking the kernel
source for about thirteen hours now.
I also tried to do this on an old Compaq, I assume with similar to worse
hardware. Same thing.
By contrast, my ancient old Slackware 7.0 has no trouble at all. What's
the deal? What can I do to speed things up?
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