Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!att!lzaz!bds From: bds@lzaz.ATT.COM (B.SZABLAK) Newsgroups: comp.os.minix Subject: Re: (ST) kernel regeneration blues on a minimum system (LONG) Summary: 512K system can be used. Message-ID: <296@lzaz.ATT.COM> Date: 8 Dec 88 13:29:05 GMT References: <722@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk> Organization: AT&T ISL Lincroft NJ USA Lines: 29 In article <722@zaphod.axion.bt.co.uk>, agray@eriskay.axion.bt.co.uk (Andy Gray) writes: > I am trying to regenerate the ST-MINIX kernel on the minimum system allowed by > the developers, ie > > Atari-520ST/M with 512k + 3.5" disk (720k) + 5.25" disk (720k) > My configuration is: Atari-520ST/M with 512k + 3.5" disk (360K) + 20MB ST204 hard disk I have no trouble building the kernel with this config, but the hard disk helps A LOT. For rebuilding the boot program I do: chmem =80000 /usr/lib/cem and then a: make -n 'CC=cc -vn -T/usr/tmp' >job1 and edit job1 so that commands that are not C compiles (cc) are echoed to stdandard out. Then I do a: . job1 >job 2>&1 which generates a shell script that can compile what is needed: . job Once this is done I rarely recreate the "job" script since I usually end up recompiling the same files. Also, its often easier just to edit the script itself. Never the less, with a little work I sure a shell script could be written to automatically do the make and edit steps. Finally, getting the memory upgrade is desireable if you like to do a shell escape from the editor to grep for something. This can be hard to do with a half meg system (one way is to exec the editor and use a login without a password - a kind of manual swap ;-)). Good Luck.