Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Apr 04, 2000 at 01:05:48AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: >> I've spent today getting a Hurd system up and running under VMware [1], >> and I've had various problems along the way which I thought I'd share. >> I'm working on a P3-450 with 160Mb of RAM, 48Mb of which is currently >> allocated to the Hurd, and (luckily) IDE disks. > >48 MB is enough, however, you must add a swap space, or the Hurd will be >less reliable (don't ask...).
Thanks, I hadn't got round to that yet (suppose it should have been the first thing I did ...). I'll see if that helps. >> I tried to run native-install, anyway, and found that it invariably hung >> partway through for no well-determined reason. > >Do you remember where? Various places: it didn't seem very related to what was actually happening. Once was while setting up ed, once was while setting up base-files (just after creating /var/mail), and there was another occasion as well. >> The fallback console >> doesn't seem to know about Ctrl-C (can this be fixed?), > >I suspect it was already in a state where Ctrl-C didn't work. Or did you >verify that it does not work in general? (The fallback is identical to the >real console, it's just in an unusual place /tmp/console). Well, cat<ENTER><Ctrl-C> didn't work, for example, so no it doesn't work in general ... it seemed fine once I got through the native-install. >> I had problems with ae, too; when I tried to edit /etc/hostname with it >> it refused to write it out with a trailing newline, which led to my >> login banner > >Mmmh. I didn't see this before. However, ae sometimes shows a message "write >failed" while it succeeded. I'll see if I can pin this down and make sure it's not just me. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
