Re: Low Memory Systems...

Thomas Pornin (bip@orion.ens.fr)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 15:45:11 +0100

In article <Pine.SOL.3.96.971125063837.11192B-100000@stekt41> you write:
>I have an 386sx/20MHz/4MB with total HD space (including swap) less than
>40MB (if i remember right, swap was 6MB and filesystem 26MB). Slackware 3.1
>with kernel 2.0.0 installed finely there. Though I'd have to compile kernel
>on another system ;)

I once saw a 386dx/25MHz/4MB with total HD space (including swap) of 40MB
compile its own kernel (a 1.2.13 I think). It took less than two days.
You have to delete some parts of the kernel sources to make some room. I
believe it would still work with 2.1.65, if you keep only the needed
sources.

A friend of mine tried to compile a kernel on a 2MB machine. It never
went beyond the first stage of "make dep". I believe the total compile
time would exceed the harddisk life-time.

--Thomas Pornin