building userland with a netbooted system

[Al <al%familysafeinternet.com@localhost>]

Hello,

I just setup a diskless system. I wanted to compile NetBSD 5.1.2 source 
tree (userland) on it. It always fails after maybe 12 hours of compiling. 
I think the error is with readline. The system is a Blue & White G3 rev. 2 
motherboard with 1GB of ram. I also setup a 100 MB swap file. I am now 
seeing if unlimiting the shell helps. Just wondering if it is possible to 
compile userland with a netbooted machine? Any ideas on what I am doing 
wrong?

Thanks,
Al