Messages in this thread | | | From | "Nicholas J. Leon" <> | Date | Tue, 25 Nov 1997 09:58:39 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: Low Memory Systems... |
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On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Thomas Pornin wrote:
# I once saw a 386dx/25MHz/4MB with total HD space (including swap) of 40MB # compile its own kernel (a 1.2.13 I think). It took less than two days. # You have to delete some parts of the kernel sources to make some room. I # believe it would still work with 2.1.65, if you keep only the needed # sources. # # A friend of mine tried to compile a kernel on a 2MB machine. It never # went beyond the first stage of "make dep". I believe the total compile # time would exceed the harddisk life-time.
I (kinda) succesfully compiled 1.3.?? on a 386sx-16 w/2 MB, no harddrive, NFS root (swap over NFS).
After 7 days, I stopped it. It was working, though: had gotten past the make dep part, and was actually compiling files.
# # --Thomas Pornin #
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