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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!hookup!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.mathworks.com!zib-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!news.muc.de!vogon.muc.de!peterb From: peterb@vogon.muc.de (Peter Bechtold) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Suggestion on recompiling kernel Date: 15 Mar 1995 17:07:41 GMT Organization: Muc e.V. - Verein zur Foerderung privater Datenkommunikation Lines: 27 Message-ID: <3k76st$l51@marvin.muc.de> References: <3jm3eb$dkl@news.bu.edu> <MICHAELV.95Mar8223323@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <3k4t10$q8e@news.bu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: vogon.muc.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Mikhail Teterin (mi@cs.bu.edu) wrote: : Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: : : In article <3jm3eb$dkl@news.bu.edu> mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) writes: : : Suggestion that can save hours of rebuilding. After changing your config : : *HOURS*??? : : It only takes me 23 minutes to do a *complete* clean build of a kernel : : on my NetBSD-1.0 machine: 486DX2/80, 20MB RAM, EISA bus SCSI, etc. I : : can't imagine that FreeBSD is THAT much different. : That's it -- my little one is just a 486DX2/33 with 4Mb and IDE drive. : Most of the *hours* are for swapping/reading ): : It even reboots sometimes while building :-( I never had that problem. It takes about 20-30 minutes to build a FreeBSD-2.0R kernel (config BLA make depend make all) on a 486DX4/100 w/20MB, ISA SCSI while working extensively with X. Peter -- # Peter Bechtold # # peterb@muc.de # # T/F +49 89 5234425 #