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RudeCat7

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Could any distro take longer to install?
« on: 17 October 2002, 06:39 »
Than Evil Entity?  :rolleyes:
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Could any distro take longer to install?
« Reply #1 on: 17 October 2002, 11:27 »
possibly gentoo linux. I spent 3 hours on it before I gave up, mainly because it was really late and it was building every program from source.
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Could any distro take longer to install?
« Reply #2 on: 17 October 2002, 13:09 »
Debian took an eternity to install, as well.  I bout a couple of cases of beer for a party I was having the next day, and I think I must have drank about 19 of them while I was waiting for that friggin thing to finish installing. I was blind drunk when it finally came time to configuring it.
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Could any distro take longer to install?
« Reply #3 on: 17 October 2002, 13:16 »
On a related note, I spent 2 and a half hours installing Windows 2000 advanced server in school one day. Just formatting the 3 gig partition took 30 minutes. This was on a 733 mhz pc......lol
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Could any distro take longer to install?
« Reply #4 on: 18 October 2002, 00:58 »
It took me four hours to get the base system of LFS up and running on my 1.4GHz Athlon PC.

Downloading and compiling extras (such as X and mozilla) on dial-up took daaaaaays...

Worth it, though!  
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« Reply #5 on: 18 October 2002, 01:31 »
when i installed EvilE on my slow computer i found it rather fast. It was a lot faster than slackware, redhat, freebsd, or win98 when they were installed on it. It wasnt faster than OpenBSD though.
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