Re: Info on programming for HURD

2001-06-18 Thread Thomas A Langan
I just started about a month ago. Here are the links that got me going: Everything you need to understand the code you're looking at: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/reference-manual/hurd_toc.html The best list of useful links: http://angg.twu.net/the_hurd_links.html Good installation guide:

FAT and Stores

2001-06-13 Thread Thomas A Langan
I am working on Marcus' fatfs-0.1. The fatfs translator seems to work OK on hard drive partitions, where bytes_per_sector (in FAT header) = store-block_size = 512. When mounting a floppy drive, however, I get: bytes_per_sector = 512 store-block_size = 1024 This causes the translator to dump

Re: Project Suggestions

2001-06-07 Thread Thomas A Langan
On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, Jeff Bailey wrote: It would be useful if you could provide more information about your capabilities and timeframe. In terms of my capabilities, I do not have any experience hacking a real-world OS (ie, I have never worked on Linux internals, etc) although I have taken an

FAT Support

2001-06-07 Thread Thomas A Langan
I was wondering what the status is of FAT support? Is it possible to mount FAT12 floppies or FAT hard drives? I noticed Marcus had an implementation about a year old. How much does it take to implement something like that? If I've got some FAT libraries that I wrote for another project (that

Project Suggestions

2001-06-04 Thread Thomas A Langan
I am a student planning on starting a masters thesis project in the near future and I'm looking for both some information and some advice. I will be installing the latest distribution tomorrow in order to start hacking and getting familiar with the system. If somebody could field some of these