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["David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT lycos.com>]

sindi keesan wrote: 
 
> My young friend for whom we made a linux computer has come to the 
> conclusion, after shrinking the linux partition so he could have four 
> 500MB partitions to play in 
 
> He has been thinking about compiling his own linux so I referred him to 
> linux from scratch.  I don't think his hard drive is big enough 
 
2GB should be enough. X will compile in under a gigabyte, and it is one 
of the largest packages. You can only do this if you delete everything 
but the binaries after you've compiled one package (moving on to the 
next one). 
 
> and he got the impression it required kernel 2.6. 
 
I hope they don't require 2.6. 
 
> LSF says it can take a few days to compile glibc on an older computer 
> - is a 233MHz 'older'? 
 
On my 300MHz PII, it took an afternoon. This was with glibc-2.3.2. 
If he's building from scratch, might he be interested in a smaller 
libc? uClibc (just don't expect MPlayer to work correctly) or an 
older glibc? 
 
David 
 
David 

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