I'm having to do a scratch install of debian 1.2 on 2 Toshiba Tecra 500CDT notebooks, and I'm slowly losing my mind from lack of sleep. It took an hour or so of fiddling to finally come up with 'disable all cache' to get the machine to boot from the floppy. Everything else went fairly normal, but a little slow. I copied the pcmcia stuff via floppy, then configured the card, nice and smooth. Now the fun started. From a local (on the ethernet) mirror, installing the rest of the packages with dselect via nfs took 5 hours! This is a p5-133 folks! Now, using loadlin to try to boot failed with the normal error I've seen about not enough memory, so I installed lilo, rebooted into DOS, enabled the cache, and rebooted... and rebooted... and rebooted. It gets to Uncompressing Linux, and reboots. OK.. I'm fairly intelligent (so I think). It must be the kernel, with all the compiled in goodies. I disabled the cache and rebooted, and am now recompiling the kernel.... still compiling after *7 hours*!!!!! And... it died with unreferenced symbols at the vmlinux linking. Does anyone have any ideas about speeding this up? Sorry about the rambling... I've had about 30 mins of sleep in the last 50 hours..
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