On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 10:15:23AM +0800, Kelsey Hartigan Go wrote: > > > Eric Pareja: http://lists.q-linux.com/pipermail/plug/2001-July/007398.html > > snipped... > > >Compiling the kernel back then took a long time. Long enough to grab a > >pizza and/or watch a movie and then some while waiting for it to churn > >out. > > Comments ... it took me 14 hours to compile the kernel (back then, in > order install support for a particular hardware, you need to compile > it in the kernel. Modules were unheard of then)...on a 386DX with 4 MB. > I later realized the reason why it took that long....I did not > enable the swap (you need to configure this yourself) -- it was swapping > in memory...or literally thrashing in a very limited amount of memory -- > but it did not hang!!!
Kelsey, how did you manage to install on your 386 with just 4MB? I remember attempting the same feat and the SLS install scripts (bash scripts) would thrash horribly for lack of memory, I gave up because the time between prompts took forever and a day. I had to finagle another 4MB RAM from a friend just to be able to install smoothly. Hmmm... maybe I could have installed it okay if I had enabled a swap partition. I remember that I got a 386DX for the express purpose of installing Linux. The 386SX did not come with a Math coprocessor (hence, one will notice the option for "Math Emulation" in Linux) and I had no idea whether the floating point math would make a difference for me so I spent the extra several hundred or so pesos on getting a DX. In 1994, Dr. Inocencio "Cito" Maramba and I were employed by Dr. Noel Lawas to get the UP College of Public Health wired. We were working with DOS/Windows 3.1 machines as clients, and got two Linux servers up (lagundi.cph.upm.edu.ph and sambong.cph.upm.edu.ph), the very first Linux boxes in UP Manila. We would install NCSA Telnet and crynwyr TCP/IP packet drivers on DOS then use Doom to test the network. Doc Cito and I would ftp the shareware .zip files of Doom off the Linux servers then install it on one of the DOS boxes. One of us would then run back to the server room in the library to launch Doom under Linux and then we would play a short game of two player Doom (either in cooperative or death match mode). After a few frags, or upon completion of a level, we would then declare the said DOS box to be good-to-go for networking. -- ___ _____________________________ eric pareja (xenos AT maharlika.upm.edu.ph) \e/ [ Philippine Linux Users' Group http://plug.linux.org.ph ] [PSHS'85] _v_ [ Linux User #8159 http://counter.li.org ] [Debian] [Python] [ /. #2834 ] #27 [Ubiquitous Computing] [http://www.bookcrossing.com/referral/pusakat] Join us on IRC: #plug irc.free.net.ph:6667 | http://www.upm.edu.ph/~xenos -- Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Official Website: http://plug.linux.org.ph Searchable Archives: http://marc.free.net.ph . To leave, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/plug . Are you a Linux newbie? To join the newbie list, go to http://lists.q-linux.com/mailman/listinfo/ph-linux-newbie
