On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 08:21:22PM -0500, Jeff Sheinberg wrote: > Farid Hajji writes: > [...] > > The biggest problem I encountered in installing a cross-compiled Hurd > > from FreeBSD was, that mke2fs was not available there and e2fstools > > contained too many Linux dependencies to be compilable on my box. > > Strangely, FreeBSD can mount ext2 filesystems, but can't make 'em :-/ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > [...] > > FreeBSD can make ufs partitions, and I believe the Hurd can run on > them, although I have only tried accessing ufs partitions from the > Hurd, not booting the Hurd from them. >
At some point I was able to create a UFS partition on my box in a very convoluted way using the FreeBSD boot disks. The Hurd booted fine, I guess that means that all the translation stuff worked. However other problems (bad CPU overheating mainly) prevented me from exploring the setup further. > I have wondered how the Hurd handles passive translators on ufs > partitions, as ext2fs needs to be created with the -O hurd option > in order for passive translators to work. > Igor
