> >
> > 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?

sshd is forking before generating keys.

or you mean first key generation with ssh-keygen but it's done only once
and keys wrote to disk.

and that can be made on another machine as it takes 30 minutes on 486DX/33
(both RSA and DSA)