On Wed, Sep 22, 1999 at 01:14:00PM -0400, Bill White wrote: > 3.) If I have a 350Mb hard drive, but I have a machine which I intend to > use entirely as a Hurd victim machine, will this be enough?
Yes, if you don't want to compile X or glibc. > That is > to say, can I use this machine only for Hurd binaries, and cross-compile > everything from my Linux machine? As Roland said, cross compiling anything but gnumach is involved, and anything except gnumach, hurd and glibc (and trivial little programs) is very complicated. If you want an impression of how hard it is to set up a completely functional cross compilation environment, check the mail archives from about nov last year to march this year (it took about so long to find all problems and misconfigurations). I have a working cross comp. setup here, but I don't know how I got to it. And I hope I will never break it again (that's why I don't touch it anymore). > 4.) What's the minimum amount of memory I will need? Will 8Mb be > sufficient? 16Mb? 32Mb? 512Mb? Do yourself a favour and get at least 32 MB, better 64 MB. It doesn't really require it, but you will be much happier (and mem is cheap today). And if you only have a 350 drive, you will want even more, because you can't have much swap space. If you had a large disk, I would recommend > 100 MB swap, even with much memory. One last tip: Make a swap partition, even if it is only a small one. There are certain conditions where the pager will fail horribly when there is no memory left and you have no swap (if you have swap, even if it is completely used up, the pager will not fail). This is a very special case, but having a small swap can defintitel increase the stability of your machine. (see http://bugs.debian.org/37945) Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/
