more OpenBSD woes: recompiling the kernel

[Kuan Lee]

Pausing before the last shore of time, pfarrar at learningco.com wrote:
>      
> Comments?  How long should I *expect* a kernel build to take, on a 
> 486SX with 8 MB RAM?
>      
>      I compiled a kernal for Linux on a 33Mhz 486DX with about the same RAM 
>      a couple years ago, and it took about 19 hours!

Considering your memory, you may want to put the system in single-user mode
before the compile.  For reference, my 2.0 linux kernel took about 35
minutes on a 486 DX2/666 with 16 MB.


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Kuan
 
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