On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
[snip] > It has 8mb RAM, and runs pretty well. I wouldn't recommend compiling > a 2.0.x kernel on it, though. With 1.2.13 and early 1.3.x kernels > you could compile the whole kernel in 60-90 minutes on a 386-40/8, > but with 2.0.x you can't even get through the dependencies in 60. > So I would recommend compiling the kernels on another machine > (I compile mine on my own workstation, an AMD 5x86-133, 32mb RAM). > hamish I, too, have a 386/40 and a P133. Compiling 2.0.x takes me 10 minutes on the P133 and 3 hours 30 on the 386. What problems would there be in an NFS mount of the 386 /usr to the newer machine and doing a sort of cross compile? Are all the links relative? What about System.map and psdatabase? I do have one problem exclusive to the 386, which has 8 Mb ram. If I zless /debian/rex/Contents.gz and then search for ryry I get steadily increasing disk activity, the swap file grows to 9 Mb and I never get to the end. Can anyone reproduce this behaviour? Lindsay