Re: Hurd (fwd)

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 07, 1999 at 06:47:49PM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 19:36:57 +0200
> From: "Philippe N." <bubulle@span.ch>
> To: matthew@debian.org
> Subject: Hurd
> 
> Hello !
> I am a boy of switzerland and i don't speak good english, but i can try
> to speak to you. I want to try HURD on a linux station... Can i have my
> linux-kernel and a hurd-kernel on the same partition ? Like i have 3
> kernel : 2.0.36, 2.0.37-pre17 and 2.2.5-15. I select my kernel with lilo.
> I would have hurd-0.3... it's possible without change my linux
> configuration ?

There is a configuration where you would have gnumach kernel on a linux boot
partition and the rest of the GNU system on another partition, but keep in
mind that you need _different_ binaries for the Hurd than for Linux. Hurd is
no drop in replacement for any other operating system.

There is also a configuration where you can keep all Hurd stuff inside a
Linux ext2fs partition, in a subdirectory or disk image file. This
configuration is mostly untested and undocumented, so I can't recommend it
to you.

> My second question is : " I have an Indy SGI station. Can i have Hurd for
> this computer for replace Irix ? 

GNU Mach does currently only run on i386/i486/i586 etc platforms, sorry.

Thanks,
Marcus

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