# 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.
I (kinda) succesfully compiled 1.3.?? on a 386sx-16 w/2 MB, no harddrive,
NFS root (swap over NFS).
After 7 days, I stopped it. It was working, though: had gotten past the
make dep part, and was actually compiling files.
#
# --Thomas Pornin
#
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