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From: peterb@vogon.muc.de (Peter Bechtold)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: Suggestion on recompiling kernel
Date: 15 Mar 1995 17:07:41 GMT
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Mikhail Teterin (mi@cs.bu.edu) wrote:
: Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote:
: : In article <3jm3eb$dkl@news.bu.edu> mi@cs.bu.edu (Mikhail Teterin) writes:

: :    Suggestion that can save hours of rebuilding. After changing your config

: : *HOURS*???

: : It only takes me 23 minutes to do a *complete* clean build of a kernel
: : on my NetBSD-1.0 machine: 486DX2/80, 20MB RAM, EISA bus SCSI, etc.  I
: : can't imagine that FreeBSD is THAT much different.

: That's it -- my little one is just a 486DX2/33 with 4Mb and IDE drive.
: Most of the *hours* are for swapping/reading ):
: It even reboots sometimes while building :-(

I never had that problem.

It takes about 20-30 minutes to build a FreeBSD-2.0R 
kernel (config BLA make depend make all)
on a 486DX4/100 w/20MB, ISA SCSI while working extensively with X.

Peter
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