Hello, trying to make a print server from an old pentium 100 64M RAM. I had to take that route because the USB<->parallel cables I've got don't work. Anyways, first tried to install debian stable but it crashes on boot. Something with the IDE controllers. btw I think there are some nasty bugs with stable kernel because it crashes on a Intel core duo laptop for other reasons. Anyways newer and older kernels work just fine on these machines. So I went ahead and installed wheezy on the machine (had to remove the vga=788 and quiet options, otherwise I can't see the installer).
Now the problem is that I can't install anything more on that machine because apt-get update takes forever. It downloads package index from the mirror but "reading package lists" step is so slow I'm not sure it will ever complete. First 11% complete in a reasonable time but then it seems it becomes slower as work progresses. My question is how can I speed up the process or somehow limit the package lists so apt completes in a reasonable time? The only thing I have in sources.list is wheezy main repo. Is there any way to further limit the number of packages? Thank you in advance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAH9M6rJ9_D1-z3DaKp0Ffz975VcPJu0=+qqjswaud8orp2t...@mail.gmail.com
