Kernel Compile Tip (Was: [ale] Lightweight Linux with X )

[Jason Lynn]

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>From: jhubbs at telocity.com
>To: baoha at sensoria.com
>CC: ale at ale.org
>Subject: Kernel Compile Tip (Was: [ale] Lightweight Linux with X )
>Date: 30 Jul 2001 10:19:44 -0700
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>i seem to remember that there was something you could do - perhaps to the 
>Makefile? - to speed up kernel compiles if you had enough RAM.  It went 
>something like this (I'm making the specifics up just to jog memories)
>
>PARAMETER       RAM
>-n 1             8MB
>-n 2            16MB
>-n 4            32MB
>
>Am I just on crack or does someone else remember this too?
>
>- Jeff
>
>On Mon, 30 July 2001, "Bao C. Ha" wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > I have installed potato, the current Debian release, on
> > a 486/DX2-66 with 32 Meg RAM and 400 M IDE disk.  It was
> > working reasonably well as a gateway/router until I
> > installed the development packages.  It took 6 hours to
> > compile a 2.4.3 kernel.
> >
> > For X, I used the fvwmn85 as the windows manager.
> >
> > Bao
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf
> > > Of Wandered
> > > Inn
> > > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:36 AM
> > > To: ale at ale.org
> > > Subject: Re: [ale] Lightweight Linux with X
> > >
> > >
> > > I can't help you with Debian, but I've had the best luck with
> > > Slackware
> > > when installing Linux on low end machines.  I recently
> > > installed it on a
> > > 486 with 20 mb memory.
> > >
> > > Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I know many of us are worrying about getting Linux SMP to
> > > work properly on
> > > > our octo-Athlon deep-red-MHz 16PB monsters, but I have a
> > > somewhat different
> > > > problem at hand.
> > > >
> > > > I need to set up a junker for a new home school.  I have
> > > 486es on hand, with
> > > > 12-32MB and one or two 340MB-800MB drives available.
> > > >
> > > > I'm pissed at Red Hat because they're pulling this "Sorry,
> > > your computer
> > > > doesn't have enough RAM to run Red Hat Linux" crap a la
> > > Microsoft even at
> > > > 20MB.  It looks like Debian is not complaining.  However, I
> > > don't have much
> > > > Debian experience and I'd like to know, in advance of
> > > trying to do it if at
> > > > all possible, how to install Debian from floppies via an
> > > Internet distro
> > > > mirror such that I can get X going and a low-footprint WM (open to
> > > > suggestions).  I have done Debian this way before and I did
> > > get a running
> > > > machine, but without X.  At that time, I also found myself
> > > a bit flummoxed
> > > > w.r.t. getting exactly the packages I needed and little or
> > > nothing else.
> > > >
> > > > I expect to find and install various free edu software on
> > > this thing for the
> > > > kiddies and banish MS in the process.
> > > >
> > > > Any general suggestions would be appreciated.
> > > >
> > > > - Jeff
> > > >
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