Re: Installation

[Phil Reardon]

Where does the 2GB restriction come from, and are people working to 
remove it?

Phil

M. Gerards wrote:

> > hello:  I would like to install the hurd to find out what it is like.  I 
> > will be putting it on a second drive slaved to my linux drive as a dual 
> > boot setup. Its a new 40 Gbyte IDE drive.  What sort of partitions would 
> > you recommend, with what sizes. 
> >    
>
> The Hurd only supports ext2 and ufs filesystems of 2GB. because of this you 
> have to create multiple partitions if you want to use more than 2GB.
>
> I have a 2GB root partition and a 2GB /home partition. I also have a partition 
> for a neighbourhurd, this can be usefull if you want to test your Hurd builds 
> or debug some stuff :). Perhaps it is even wise to have a 3th partition to 
> compile stuff on. (I've noticed a lot of building can corrupt your filesystem, 
> you don't want this with your /home).
>
> Thanks,
> Marco
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