Well, I have an XP machine that does file/print/tivo duty that I could let grind for a little while, but it occurred to me that I could thumb-drive Linux and try building for that too. Probably more easily, since I don't have the GNU set for XP yet.
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 7:07 PM, Eike Rathke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Donald, > > On Tuesday, 2011-08-30 18:38:41 -0400, Donald Whytock wrote: > >> How much disk space are we talking for a build? > > Roughly 8GB (for git svn, mere svn +2GB or so), plus 5GB ccache if > affordable, speeds up things a lot when rebuilding something. > >> Could a thumb-drive Linux install handle it? > > Build _on_ a thumb drive? How many days are you willing to wait? And are > you willing to sacrifice the life time of it, as a build is heavily i/o > bound? Or did you mean just the system on the thumb drive and build on > a hard disk? Given enough RAM so that the needed executables and header > files are cached that might be possible, never tried that. > > Eike
