And now, a stunning compiling tip from Captain Obvious:
If you are ever compiling the Linux kernel on any system with 500 Mhz of processing power or less, make sure to remove all the driver and filesystem options your don't need. As I'm finding out the hard way, it takes around 5+ minutes to compile the modules for each file system on a computer this slow. I feel especially silly because I am only actually using one disk file system on the machine (xfs).
If you are ever compiling the Linux kernel on any system with 500 Mhz of processing power or less, make sure to remove all the driver and filesystem options your don't need. As I'm finding out the hard way, it takes around 5+ minutes to compile the modules for each file system on a computer this slow. I feel especially silly because I am only actually using one disk file system on the machine (xfs).
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