Kernel Compile Tip (Was: [ale] Lightweight Linux with X )

[jhubbs at telocity.com]

i seem to remember that there was something you could do - perhaps to the Makefile? - to speed up kernel compiles if you had enough RAM.  It went something like this (I'm making the specifics up just to jog memories)

PARAMETER       RAM
-n 1             8MB
-n 2            16MB
-n 4            32MB

Am I just on crack or does someone else remember this too?

- Jeff

On Mon, 30 July 2001, "Bao C. Ha" wrote:

> 
> 
> I have installed potato, the current Debian release, on
> a 486/DX2-66 with 32 Meg RAM and 400 M IDE disk.  It was
> working reasonably well as a gateway/router until I
> installed the development packages.  It took 6 hours to
> compile a 2.4.3 kernel.  
> 
> For X, I used the fvwmn85 as the windows manager.
> 
> Bao
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf 
> > Of Wandered
> > Inn
> > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 8:36 AM
> > To: ale at ale.org
> > Subject: Re: [ale] Lightweight Linux with X
> > 
> > 
> > I can't help you with Debian, but I've had the best luck with 
> > Slackware
> > when installing Linux on low end machines.  I recently 
> > installed it on a
> > 486 with 20 mb memory.
> > 
> > Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> > > 
> > > I know many of us are worrying about getting Linux SMP to 
> > work properly on
> > > our octo-Athlon deep-red-MHz 16PB monsters, but I have a 
> > somewhat different
> > > problem at hand.
> > > 
> > > I need to set up a junker for a new home school.  I have 
> > 486es on hand, with
> > > 12-32MB and one or two 340MB-800MB drives available.
> > > 
> > > I'm pissed at Red Hat because they're pulling this "Sorry, 
> > your computer
> > > doesn't have enough RAM to run Red Hat Linux" crap a la 
> > Microsoft even at
> > > 20MB.  It looks like Debian is not complaining.  However, I 
> > don't have much
> > > Debian experience and I'd like to know, in advance of 
> > trying to do it if at
> > > all possible, how to install Debian from floppies via an 
> > Internet distro
> > > mirror such that I can get X going and a low-footprint WM (open to
> > > suggestions).  I have done Debian this way before and I did 
> > get a running
> > > machine, but without X.  At that time, I also found myself 
> > a bit flummoxed
> > > w.r.t. getting exactly the packages I needed and little or 
> > nothing else.
> > > 
> > > I expect to find and install various free edu software on 
> > this thing for the
> > > kiddies and banish MS in the process.
> > > 
> > > Any general suggestions would be appreciated.
> > > 
> > > - Jeff
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