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Sindi Keesan wrote:
> 
> Steven, how much space do you think would be needed 
> on hard disk for BL3 without X, and with a compiler? 

For compiling small programs, 25mb should be reasonably
comfortable. 

> Subtracting 8M from 40 for swap space leaves 32, 
> possibly minus a small DOS partition.  Is this 
> enough? 

Yes.  

> I think you said the BL3 kernel took up about 2.5MB 
> RAM.  

Kernel, workspace and essential processes take about that.

> Is there some way to load only selected parts of the 
> kernel using some switch?

That's what modules are for.  For example the BL3 kernel
boots without CDrom capability.  To turn that on, you do
three insmods.

Cheers,
Steven