Re: Getting started...

[Manuel Menal]

L.U.G.Sa.M. L.U.G.Sa.M. wrote:
> 2006/2/10, KiyuKo <eof@kiyuko.org>:

> > "L.U.G.Sa.M. L.U.G.Sa.M." <lugsam@gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Long ago, i heard about Hurd. I_ve been using free software
> > > operating systems for a long time, almost 4 years. Well, now i
> > > want to use Hurd, but does not know where to start from. I know
> > > it is difffrent from linux. So i will need your help for starting
> > > using it.

> > Before starting using it, you'll probably want to install it.
> > Download the installation CDs from http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd
> > and follow the installation instructions at
> > http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install to have a working
> > GNU/Hurd installation.

> Thanks KiyuKo, i read Hurd cant´t mount filesystems larger than 1Gb

Wrong. This was fixed ages ago.

> and only mounts ext2 filesystems. Is that true?

The latter is true. Well, of course you can also mount ext3 read-only
(as ext2) and FAT, but for "real use" (e.g. for /), there is only ext2,
yes.

Ciao,

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Manuel Menal