more OpenBSD woes: recompiling the kernel

[Scott Stirling]

Hee, hee.  I run Linux on my Athlon 700, 196 MB SDRAM, 13 GB 7200 RPM IDE
drive and it takes me 2min 25sec (tops) to compile the 2.2.13 kernel with
standard config options.  I know people love to extend the lives of boat
anchors with Linux, but it's such a sweet OS to have on a kick-ass computer!

Scott Stirling
West Newton, MA

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kuan Lee" <kuanlee at erols.com>
To: <pfarrar at learningco.com>
Cc: <discuss at Blu.Org>; <sgordon at kenan.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 1:45 AM
Subject: Re: more OpenBSD woes: recompiling the kernel


> Pausing before the last shore of time, pfarrar at learningco.com wrote:
> >
> > Comments?  How long should I *expect* a kernel build to take, on a
> > 486SX with 8 MB RAM?
> >
> >      I compiled a kernal for Linux on a 33Mhz 486DX with about the same
RAM
> >      a couple years ago, and it took about 19 hours!
>
> Considering your memory, you may want to put the system in single-user
mode
> before the compile.  For reference, my 2.0 linux kernel took about 35
> minutes on a 486 DX2/666 with 16 MB

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