On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Samy Elashmawy wrote:
> ROFL
>
> I tried my fist comile on a 486/66 with 4meg ram. Took me over a week to
> get a kernal that would comi\pile with out an error , that would load. Had
> to start the compile and leave it overnight.
You must have been very determined to recompile your kernel! What linux
dist and version number was that? How long ago? I've read you can compile
the kernel on a fast machine and install it on the slow machine, but never
tried it.
> Talk about fustrating <grin>
>
> Funny thogh . since installing suse on my p166 and amd400 , I havent yet
> needed to recomplile.
Yeah. That's what the article was getting at. It aint broke, don't try to
fix it! :-)
> But now I know I wont have to leave it run.
I bet you won't be able to leave your chair compiling on the 400mhz!
I just have a amd k2-266 32MB ram, and the whole process past make
menuconfig takes maybe 10min, though I just surf while its going on and I
don't notice the time. I found the more stuff you enable, the longer it
takes. I generated a 800KB file last night for kicks and it took a long
time.
> Reminds me of when I started programing wirh clarion 1/2 start the complile
> , go have a cupo of coffe and come back 20 minuts latter. These bnow
> complier and faster chips are great.
>
I hear ya! But I tell you I am happy with the amd 266. It's the modem
speed that bugs me. I can't wait til asdn makes it here.
> At 10:32 PM 3/16/1999 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >Greetings,
> >
> >With all the traffic on the list about kernels, I thought this might be
> >interesting.
> >
> >I found an article in the Linux Gazette in which the author
> >states that the common belief that a linux install requires a
> >kernel compile scares newbies enough so that many do not try linux
> >for this reason alone.
> >
> >He states that the popular dists ship adequate kernels and the desire to
> >recompile for speed is useless. Since modern pc's ship with 32MB or more
> >Ram, modularizing is meaningless, he adds.
> >
> >Of course, the kernel recompile is scary the first time, but after that, I
> >find it FUN!
> >
> >Take a look at this before you jump on me! :-)
> >http://www.linuxresources.com/LDP/LDP/LG/issue37/martinez.html
> >
> >Steve.
> >2.2.3!
> >
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