Comments on: We err twice http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/we-err-twice/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/we-err-twice/#comment-37652 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:28:40 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2044#comment-37652 JiGGaK: Usually I do something like that, yanking the drive on the Fujitsu and transplanting it into the 1Ghz machine. It cuts down on the system rebuilds considerably.

The downside is the time it takes to pull out the drive disconnect it from the tray, move it to the modular shell for the other drive, and reconnect it all. Plus wear and tear on the drive pins, which I am horrified of breaking ever since I snapped two pins off a laptop drive a couple of years ago, ruining both the drive and the caddy. :shock:

But anyway, you’re right, there are better ways to do it than to wait hours to grow a kernel.

]]> By: zmjjmz http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/we-err-twice/#comment-37651 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:45:42 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2044#comment-37651 “P.S.: My Inspiron boots to the console login in 8 seconds now. … :twisted: ”

Dayum. If I ever needed to reboot my computers on a regular basis I would recompile my kernels just for that.

]]> By: JiGGaK http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2008/11/15/we-err-twice/#comment-37650 Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:26:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/?p=2044#comment-37650 Why not just compile the kernel on your more powerful machine and copy it over to the 100MHz machine? You may need to setup a cross compiler, or simply put whatever distro your using into a VM (VirtualBox, or QEMU) for compiling.

This should greatly decrease the time required to test kernels.

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