RE: Just how long does it take to compile?
Well, it seems the consensus is about a week?!? Being out of work at the
moment, I've got nothing but time. There have also been a few suggestions,
which I'll give my answers to and maybe someone can enlighten me in the
errors of my ways ;-)
This machine takes old RAM's which should be easy and cheap to find.
Unfortunately neither is the case. Shops don't carry them so second-hand is
the only source. And second hand is rarer than hen's teeth since most home
users have swapped these machines out ages ago. Like I said, my duaghter
currently has 64M in her machine. I am hoping to prove to her that this new
machine will be better then her current one, which doal-boots with Windows95
for her printer and scanner and a few games I never see her play anymore.
The printer now seems to be supported, Xerox M750, but the scanner is
Parallel, which might be a problem.
As for compiling on my dual PII 350 and copying over. Yes, I've got a network
connection so connectivity is not an issue. The two things I am worried about
are:
1) How can I compile this on my current, working KDE2 system without screwing
it up. Every time I've tried playing with such things, I've alway been
bitten, 999 times bitten, once shy.
2) As my system is PII and the target is PentiumMMX I'm not sure exactly haw
to cross-compile. If I ws willing to take the plunge and upgrade MY desktop,
I could compile for my PII and hopefully get a bit of performance
improvement, but I would need to compile for the PentiumMMX in the target
box. It seems simpler, but slower, just to compile on the target in the first
place. I know(think?) that it will optimise for the Pentium rather than the
386 compatible deb's for a bit of performance?
If someone can answer the two points above to my satisfaction, and remember,
I'm not really a programmer, I just play one in my dreams ;-), then I might
take the chance with compiling on my faster box. The wife keeps complaining
about the box being on all night, often thrashing, and just how much power is
it using.
Thanks for the answers and suggestions. I look forward to even more, but I'm
having problems with my ISP's mail service. Seems I can send mails just fine,
but can't fetch them reliably? Sometimes it helps if I fetch a few of them
via the web site, but that removes them from my mail box, so I risk loosing
many mails that way.
Cheers,
John Gay
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