On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 02:10, Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nikos Chantziaras schrieb: >> >> Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >>> >>> [...] >>> The only real option is to get more RAM. >> >> Another option is to emerge on another machine, build binary packages and >> emerge those in the embedded system.
Yeah, it looks like this is the way to go. I've never used binary packages so this will be an interesting exercise. > Or mount / as nfs on another machine, chroot in that and compile. This skips > the whole extraction part on the embedded system. Interesting. I'm not sure if I can, though. I don't have control of the kernel. I'll investigate. > What about temporary giving the VM more resources? Nope, not possible unless I pay more. I had intended to simply use a big swap file but even that doesn't work. This virtual box doesn't support it.

