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From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
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On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 09:35:49AM +0530 I heard the voice of
Joseph Koshy, and lo! it spake thus:
> 
> I had a spare paritition so the cross-build was fairly painless.

And note that a sufficiently large (~512 meg works easy) swap
partition you can get by without for a few minutes works quite well as
a "spare partition".  That's how I did it once.


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