Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Andre Caldas
Michael Banck wrote: Please reply on-list next time if you want to get an answer. On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:55:23AM +0900, Andre Caldas wrote: 2. Adding another partition will not help. AIUI, the metadata gets mapped into the virtual adress space. Thus, you can have more than one partition. What

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Michael Banck
Please reply on-list next time if you want to get an answer. On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:55:23AM +0900, Andre Caldas wrote: > >>2. Adding another partition will not help. > > > >AIUI, the metadata gets mapped into the virtual adress space. Thus, > >you can have more than one partition. > > Wha

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:01:19PM -0300, Felipe Almeida Lessa wrote: > On Ter, 2004-07-27 at 11:37 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > No, the 2GB limit is a limitation of the Hurd's ext2fs translator, > > not a Mach limitation. > > Are there any other filesystem translators avaiable? If any, do they

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 10:10:04AM +0900, Andre Caldas wrote: > 1. Mach has nothing to do with it. Indeed. > 2. Adding another partition will not help. AIUI, the metadata gets mapped into the virtual adress space. Thus, you can have more than one partition. Michael

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Andre Caldas
Michael Ablassmeier wrote: On 2004-07-27, Andre Caldas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've heard the problem is with Mach. And the "filesystem" is just a translator that exists outside the Mach, right? see the "The use in diskfs" part on: http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/html/node11.html Ah! Now

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 02:55:39PM +0900, Andre Caldas wrote: > By the way, when I pressed "reply" on my e-mail client (thunderbird), > it uses the "FROM" field as the reply address! Shouldn't it be > [EMAIL PROTECTED] You should press 'List reply' instead of 'reply' if you want to reply to the ma

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Felipe Almeida Lessa
On Ter, 2004-07-27 at 11:37 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:27:08PM +0900, Andre Caldas wrote: > > I've heard the problem is with Mach. And the "filesystem" is just a > > translator that exists outside the Mach, right? > > No, the 2GB limit is a limitation of the Hurd's e

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Marco Gerards
rafael ernesto alfaro sandoval <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed the Debian GNU/Hurd in a 10 Gb partition, but I read in a > mail list that hurd does not support partitions more big than 1 Gb, is > this true? It is partially true. Big partitions are supported, but big filesystems are not

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Michael Ablassmeier
On 2004-07-27, Andre Caldas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've heard the problem is with Mach. And the "filesystem" is just a > translator that exists outside the Mach, right? see the "The use in diskfs" part on: http://kilobug.free.fr/hurd/pres-en/html/node11.html

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:27:08PM +0900, Andre Caldas wrote: > I've heard the problem is with Mach. And the "filesystem" is just a > translator that exists outside the Mach, right? No, the 2GB limit is a limitation of the Hurd's ext2fs translator, not a Mach limitation. Michael

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Gaƫl Le Mignot
Hello rafael! Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:30:47 -0600, you wrote: > I installed the Debian GNU/Hurd in a 10 Gb partition, but I read that > hurd does not support partitions more big than 1 Gb, is this true? The default ext2fs translator of the GNU Hurd is limited to a bit less than 2Gb (I use 1.9G

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Andre Caldas
I've heard the problem is with Mach. And the "filesystem" is just a translator that exists outside the Mach, right? James William Dumay wrote: I belive this only holds true for ext2 filesystems. James On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:55 +0900, Andre Caldas wrote: rafael ernesto alfaro sandoval wrote: I i

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread James William Dumay
I belive this only holds true for ext2 filesystems. James On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 14:55 +0900, Andre Caldas wrote: > rafael ernesto alfaro sandoval wrote: > > I installed the Debian GNU/Hurd in a 10 Gb partition, but I read in a > > mail list that hurd does not support partitions more big than 1 G

Re: Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread Andre Caldas
rafael ernesto alfaro sandoval wrote: I installed the Debian GNU/Hurd in a 10 Gb partition, but I read in a mail list that hurd does not support partitions more big than 1 Gb, is this true? I read Mach supports only 1 GB partitions. I don't know what happens if you use a bigger partition. (I didn'

Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread rafael ernesto alfaro sandoval
I installed the Debian GNU/Hurd in a 10 Gb partition, but I read that hurd does not support partitions more big than 1 Gb, is this true?

Need help to Install Debian GNU/hurd

2004-07-27 Thread rafael ernesto alfaro sandoval
I installed the Debian GNU/Hurd in a 10 Gb partition, but I read in a mail list that hurd does not support partitions more big than 1 Gb, is this true? Thanks!!