On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 10:22:15AM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote: > > > > I keep hearing my hurd partition has to be small. Currently it is 6 gig, > > > but I don't see anything complaining. Is this OK? > > > > MUCH to big. It did really not complain? Note that we talk about the > > partition, not about the hard disk as a whole. Are you sure you made a 6GB > > ext2fs partition for the Hurd? The partition should be ~ 1 GB max. > > I'm sick of hearing about this limitation.
If enough people start to feel sick about it, maybe someone will start working on it. > It probably isn't something trivial to fix since someone would've done it > by now if it were. But even if we're not going to tackle it right now, > it'd be nice to start gathering information on what needs to be done. Nobody asked until now. Now that someone asked, Roland or Thomas will say something about it, I am sure. However, this is even more useful if there is a volunteer to write and test the changes, too. Information is dead if it isn't made use of. > At least, it's better than telling every newcomer about it, IMO. :) That's all I can do. Even if I knew more about this, I couldn't fix it. So unless someone volunteers, we will still need to tell everyone about it, regardless how much we know about this issue. FWIW, I agree that there could be more information about the problems that exist. That's why I am currently wading through the mailing list archive to get as much documentation as I can. However, I am still in August 1996 :) Expect some new pages at www.debian.org/ports/hurd soon. I will also make a page with documented small projects that volunteers can pick up (like this one). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
