egcs with -O2 really tries hard to optimise the kernel.
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/index.html#kernel-compile-slow
	suggests using "make COPTS=-O" to save time, though it may make
	most sense to find an old pentium or even 486 on which you can
	compile :)

		David/absolute

	"Its just another ultimate battle of good against evil..."

On Mon, 9 Aug 1999, Steven Grunza wrote:

> On Friday, August 06, 1999 6:02 AM, Manuel Bouyer 
> [SMTP:bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr] wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 04:44:53PM -0400, Steven Grunza wrote:
> > > I just bought a new 6.4 GB IDE disk to upgrade my current 200+MB
> > > drive.  I know the BIOS on the 386SX will not handle the full 
> size
> > > of
> > > the drive.  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to set this
> > > system up?  I plan on removing the 200MB drive and adding a CD-RW
> > > so
> >
> > That's easy: tell your bios you have a 512MB disk, with geometry
> > 1024/16/63. Then install NetBSD, making sure your boot partition
> > is below the first 512MB.
> > I can't count the number of times I've done this :)
> >
> > --
> > Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.
> >           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
> > --
> 
> It worked great.  The only problem now is that I can't reasonably 
> build a kernel.  I've got 8 MB of RAM and a 386SX.  I let the system 
> run (without X running) for two days but the new kernel still wasn't 
> finished building.  I seem to recall this machine took a long time to 
> build a new kernel but that an overnight run (8 hours or so) was all 
> that was needed.  Does the new egcs compiler really require this much 
> extra time (48+ hours) to build a kernel or is my system not really 
> installed correctly?  Details are:
> 
> 	- 386SX-25
> 	- 8MB RAM
> 	- 6.4 GB disk (56 MB swap)
> 	- DE220 ISA Ethernet on a 10Base2 LAN with all other machines 
> powered down
> 	- NetBSD port-i386 1.4
> 
> Steven G.
> mailto:steven_grunza@ieee.org
> 
>