> caveats: you would most likely fail to build release with such
> optimisations, installation kernels with ramdisks won't fit on the
> floppies due to bigger size of the optimized binaries.  you can build to
> DESTDIR and use "build.sh install=/" or "build.sh distribution sets".
> 
I only ever install over the network anyway so thats ok :)

thanks everyone for your suggestion, i will try the mk.conf method

Dunc