[LUNI] Sloooooooow

Martin Maney maney at two14.net
Thu Jan 25 12:49:01 CST 2007


On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 12:11:33PM -0600, John Quigley wrote:
> It's about 112MB if you exit the aptitude instance that is presented
> when you first boot the newly installed system.  With a testing-repo

Hmmm.  Maybe I've been installing too many times lately (I've started
playing with server consolidation and it's been an excuse for some
experimentation).

> Aptitude is there, but I do want to stress how minimal the system is.
> There's not even a '/bin/more.'

I think you're mistaken - I remember trying to pipe something into less
and finding it wasn't there, but more was.  Or was that one of
busybox's many aliases?

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