I have compiled the kernel for SparcStation20, which was used as the server for the "sparcgate" cluster. The reason for this is to be able to do apt-get from inside the cluster, to ease the installation process.
To get the compilation going, I had to get so many files with apt-get. libncurses4-dev and other things like gcc. I thought kernel-package depended on them, but apparently it was not the case.
The IP-Masquerade-HOWTO was referenced, and set up the kernel options accordingly. I have discovered that the machine had 2 cpu's, but the docs said the linux kernel did not support SMP on SuperSparc, so, I had to live with the single-CPU situation.
Took around 2 hours and 30 minutes to complete the build process. It was a lengthy process to compile, but then, I had a Debian slink system with kernel 2.2.12.
IP-masquerading had to be configured, and according to the masquerading HOWTO, I didn't have to do much, I made a little script to enable masquerading with ipchains. I was quite surprised that it could be that simple to do IP-masquarading.
(The contents of /root/masquarade script should go here...)