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I attempted to install peanut linux on a pentium 1 /166 mhz /8 mb ram / 600 mb hd, 14 hours ago I started extracting the content of peanut.bz2, now its by "lib/modules/2.2.18/net/yam.o"... DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW LONG THIS IS GONNA TAKE?
Name: Robbo Date: December 28, 2000 at 02:35:19 Pacific
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s--- eh? It took about 3mins on my computer, but thats has 64mb RAM. It shouldn't take that long though.
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Response Number 4
Name: Ryan Cooley Date: December 28, 2000 at 03:24:04 Pacific
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One thing everyone should know about Unix is, it's designed to be a networked OS. bzip2 always acts like it's archive is over the network... If it comes to the end of the data but not the end of the archive, it will just wait until that data is available. While you've got a situation where it seems to be a bad thing, most often it has great advantages. Since you didn't download the entire bzip2 archive, you can use wget or another download resumer to continue where it left off, and bzip2 will be right there and will extract the data as it gets it.
Short answer... You didn't download the entire file! Bzip2 is waiting for the download to finish up, and it will process the data _as_ it's downloaded.
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Response Number 5
Name: Robbo Date: December 28, 2000 at 15:51:57 Pacific
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I'm not 100% sure but i think the requirements may have been 32mb RAM, check that.
Ryan Cooley, I don't think that's it,right now the file extraction of peanut.bz2 is at "opt/kde/bin/kfm",maybe it's because I only have 8 megs of ram,I have to be pacient, I have allready waited for about 36 hours and probably by tomorrow in the afternoon it will be complete...thanx anyway
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Response Number 7
Name: Frank Date: December 29, 2000 at 01:38:31 Pacific
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Sorry eh, You've still got the netscape files to come, that took ages...lol. It's obviously the RAM, maybe a diff version of linux would be better. 36 hours is ridiculous to install an Operating system, imagine if windows took that long?
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Response Number 8
Name: Calispell Date: December 29, 2000 at 07:43:59 Pacific
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I'd have to say Frank is right. After all, do you really need KDE to run Linux ? It's not much good unless you have a lot of K-based programs to run within it.
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