Hello Philip and other GNU/HURD Folk
I just cut some K5 cd's. Thank you for making them available Philip !
;->
I have been browsing around looking for up to date info on the K5
cd set. I have burned the cd's and tested them. Now I am waiting to get
a new machine to play on. My last set to install and play with was the
J4. I saw in one place that the GNU/MACH could handle >= 10gig file
partitioon.
The latest release of GNU Mach is version 1.3, 2002-05-28. It features:
- Bug fixes.
- The kernel now directly supports "boot scripts" in the form of
multiboot module names with the same syntax as the Hurd's
serverboot program. That is, instead of telling GRUB
module /boot/serverboot, you can give GRUB a series
of
commands like module /hurd/ext2fs ${...} where the syntax
after module is the same as in boot scripts for Hurd's
serverboot.
- The kernel message device
kmsg is now enabled by
default. --disable-kmsg turns it off.
- Large disks (>= 10GB) are now correctly supported, the new
get_status call DEV_GET_RECORDS can
return
the number of records of a device.
- Lots of tweaks have been done to the virtual memory management
to
make it perform better on today's machines.
- The console supports ANSI escape sequences for colors and
attributes.
- Support for the terminal speeds B57600 and B115200 has been
added.
However on the Debian site I see
Hurd Partitions
The GNU/Hurd does not support partition sizes greater than about 2
Gb.
However, several partitions can be created during the installation
process. The Hurd also uses extensions to the ext2 file system, the
call is "mke2fs -o hurd /dev/*". The installation CDs
use this when creating Hurd partitions.
Which is what I was used too from times past. Can you clarify this
please ?
cheers
Donny
PS
Hello to all GNU/HURD developers. I have been out of the loop for a
long time since my move between the UK -> Norway and back to
Houston. I now will get to start messing about with the HURD again.
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