Subject: RE: old 386sx & NetBSD 1.4.1
To: Steven Grunza <grunza@ulticom.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@mono.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/21/1999 14:57:52
	The default kernel compile options have changed in 1.4 - it
	now sets -O2 which will use considerably more memory.
	There are ways around this :)
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/index.html#kernel-compile-slow


		David/absolute

On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Steven Grunza wrote:

> I'm not sure if my machine is 1.4 or 1.4.1 but with a 16MHz 386SX, 8MB
> of RAM, and 6.4 GB of disk, I couldn't generate a new kernel.  The newer
> gcc (or egcs, I forget which it is) needs a _LOT_ more memory and caused
> my system to swap itself to a stand still.  IMHO, unless you can stuff
> at least 6MB more memory into your system, don't upgrade if you want to
> be able to use the C compiler.
> 
> 
> Steven G.
> mailto:steven_grunza@ieee.org
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org [mailto:port-i386-owner@netbsd.org]On
> > Behalf Of Brian Stark
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 1999 7:04 PM
> > To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> > Subject: old 386sx & NetBSD 1.4.1
> >
> >
> > All,
> >
> > I have an old 80386sx system (16Mhz, 4MB RAM, 420MB disk drive) with
> > NetBSD 1.2 installed.
> >
> > Does anyone have a similar system with 1.4.1 installed on it?
> > I thought
> > I'd ask here first before I spend/waste any time trying to upgrade it.
> >
> >
> > Brian
> >
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