On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 12:07:13AM +0200, Joachim Nilsson wrote: > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 11:35:09PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > > On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 06:18:32PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > > > The PC is a 486/66 with 12MB RAM, 2GB HD, floppy but no CDROM. > > > The Hurd likes swap, with so little RAM you should realy give it a lot. > > > Since partition sizes are limited to ~1 GB, setting the rest for swap > > > might be a good idea. > > The Hurd might need some swap, but it doesn't need ~1 GB! You should > > not have a lot more swap than twice the amount of ram anyhow. I doubt > > you can do anything useful with the Hurd on this machine anyhow, the > > Hurd isn't optimized. > > If it's one of those rare PCI-equipped 486 mobo's then I'd like to > have it for testing some PCI-drivers. Mainly for booting though and > via gdb serial line ... 486'es are really good, still. No fans, small, > almost no heat! :-) Oh yes, they have some uses, but I think they are too slow for the Hurd at the moment. > Anyway, I cannot seem to find a gnu-latest.tar.gz for the new libio stuff > on alpha. I tried, despite better knowledge, to upgrade my old stdio > install using apt. And since that failed, of course, I thought I'd > reinstall ... but I cannot find a gnu-latest.tar.gz from this year, > have I gone blind, or lost track completely? > > Hmmmm, or am I losing a point or two here? Is it that you reinstall > with an old/existsing gnu-latest which in turn "transforms" that > to a libio install after a couple of of magic ./native-installs? You can get it at: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian-staging/gnu-libio-20020422.tar.gz Jeroen Dekkers -- Jabber supporter - http://www.jabber.org Jabber ID: jdekkers@jabber.org Debian GNU supporter - http://www.debian.org http://www.gnu.org IRC: jeroen@openprojects
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