In an attempt to speed things up, my Qube now has more RAM and a larger hard drive.
The RAM has been bumped to 196KB total (from 96KB), and the drive is now a 120GB Maxtor DiamondMax 16. Preparing the drive was fairly easy – I’ve partitioned many drives to Qube format by now, thanks to NetBSD Live and Knoppix – but the cpio from the old 17GB Fujitsu took *ages*.