> Does the Hurd run with only 8 MB of RAM? Not very well. Maybe not at all. You probably need to have some swap to
> One first big problem I'm encountering here, is the requirement of an > ext2fs filesystem for the Hurd in its current setup. There is no such requirement. The Hurd supports both ext2fs and ufs, and can use either as the boot/root filesystem. Much more testing has been done on ext2fs in the last couple of years, however. > The boxes have currently a UFS filesystem + BSD disklabel on them and the > Mach4 kernel is running a ufs filesystem server on them. The Hurd seems > to need an ext2fs (ext2fs.static), at least to put the translator bits Just replace ext2fs with ufs and you should be fine. Just don't run BSD fsck on those partitions. > on. How can I get an ext2fs on those 8 MB RAM Boxes without Linux? AFAIK, The last version of Lites I used (several years ago) had ext2fs. > it's not possible anymore to install Linux on machines with less than 16 > MB RAM (also, I don't have space to burn on those i486 for extra Linux > partitions). Is there any way to get the Hurd on them, even withouht > Linux? You don't need Linux partitions, you just need to boot Linux (or anything that knows ext2fs, which FreeBSD does now too).
