On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:59:51AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > initial install. I thought it had gone horribly wrong because it
> > didn't reply to pings. I searched high and low for a monitor to
> > connect to the box, after about an hour I found one. Hooked it up and
> > it was still generating SSH keys ;P
> 
> that's ssh problem. anyway does sshd need fpu?
> 
> on 386DX/40 it doesn't take more than a minute.

Is there any reason to not fork into the background key generation and
the subsequent starting of sshd so the system can otherwise start up?
It can also take a considerable amount of time on old sparcs, 68k macs,
and other vintage systems.

jf
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