> I have $PORTAGE_TMPDIR on the SD card, which is cheap enough to replace > if too many OOo compiles toast it.
And I took your advice >> 2. It's sloooooow > > I was pleasantly surprised at how quickly some compiles completed. Not as > fast as my desktop of course, but faster than was expecting, although 14 > hours for OOo required a certain amount of patience. My speeds vary, Sometimes it seems quicker than at other times. Most noticeably when I log in; sometimes it takes ~10 secs for the prompt to show, sometimes it's instantaneous > >> Maybe wait for Neil Bothwick to show up and ask him for the gory >> details - he seems to have gotten it down pat on his Eee. > > As mentioned yesterday, I now do all emerges in a chroot on my desktop to > build binary packages, then emerge -k on the Eee, so Ooo only takes 90 > minutes now. The only compiling I do on the Eee is kernel changes. Negatory. My dialup is attenuated by 8 miles of analog telephone line. When I'm mobile it's a different story. mw
