Hi, Linuxers

Earlier it was stated that gcc will not work on a 2MB machine, but
in the announcement of the features of 0.12 Linus wrote (Dec 19th):

| I got VM working today (not bad in two days if I may say so :-), but
| haven't really tested extensively.  I tried some compilations (I remade
| uemacs) on a 2M machine (or rather a 8M machine, of which Linux sees
| only 2M), and it worked (gcc, make, bash etc in memory ar the same
| time), albeit slowly.  There are probably still problems, but it seems
| VM will definitely be in 0.12. 

I tried to recompile the kernel on my 2MB, 16MHz 386SX yesterday.
In none of the subdirectories this completed successfull.
Some modules compile well, on others gcc compiles a lot (HD ist
acting a lot), but after a while (5 .. 15min) there seems no more
traffic on the disk (only the 30s-updates).
With ^C I come back to sh and everything is o.k. (except that I didn't
get what I want - a new kernel).

Question:

Is anybody out there who successfully made a new kernel on
a small machine like mine? Maybe I simply did not wait long enough?

What would be better: To buy more RAM or a bigger Harddisk
(for a Swappartition and another Linux Partition).
Please send any answers, suggestions, ... per mail. I have no
access to the news.

Andreas Priebe

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