On Tue, Feb 01, 2000 at 05:52:17PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > Is it possible to make the hurd filesystem from FreeBSD? I'd like to > try out the hurd, but I really don't want to install linux first. > Otherwise I may just wait until the installation system is a bit more > independent.
If FreeBSD mkfs.ext2 accepts -o flag, you need only to make such partition and unpack a tar file. If it doesn't, download one-floppy Linux, or use GNU mkfs.ext2 (don't know if it is portable) to make such partition and then unpack tar file.
