On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Scott Harney wrote: > And the kernel build! 2.0 wasn't modular so rebuilding with just the > devices you had installed compiled in made a huge difference. But boy > did it take some time on a 486-SX with 4M RAM and no man co-processor.
Oh yea... i remember upgrading my Slack box from 1.2.13 to 2.0 kernel. You had to compile gcc, libc, ld, procps, pppd, make, binutils, and a load of other stuff from source before you could upgrade the kernel. Those compiles also took many many hours on my 486. But I was lucky enough to have 8M RAM, haha. Ahhh the good ol' days... While upgrading libc, i learned how bad it is to run 'rm -rf /lib/libc*'. If you don't believe me, try it!! ray
