Re: Gnumach/Hurd on 8 MB Boxes?
> Does the Hurd run with only 8 MB of RAM?
Not very well. Maybe not at all. You probably need to have some swap to
> One first big problem I'm encountering here, is the requirement of an
> ext2fs filesystem for the Hurd in its current setup.
There is no such requirement. The Hurd supports both ext2fs and ufs, and
can use either as the boot/root filesystem. Much more testing has been
done on ext2fs in the last couple of years, however.
> The boxes have currently a UFS filesystem + BSD disklabel on them and the
> Mach4 kernel is running a ufs filesystem server on them. The Hurd seems
> to need an ext2fs (ext2fs.static), at least to put the translator bits
Just replace ext2fs with ufs and you should be fine.
Just don't run BSD fsck on those partitions.
> on. How can I get an ext2fs on those 8 MB RAM Boxes without Linux? AFAIK,
The last version of Lites I used (several years ago) had ext2fs.
> it's not possible anymore to install Linux on machines with less than 16
> MB RAM (also, I don't have space to burn on those i486 for extra Linux
> partitions). Is there any way to get the Hurd on them, even withouht
> Linux?
You don't need Linux partitions, you just need to boot Linux (or anything
that knows ext2fs, which FreeBSD does now too).
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