On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 07:36:21AM +0100, M.C. Vernon wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> > Well, not that I would recommend installing Mach on any low end machine...
>
> Which is a problem in a couple of regards:
>
> 1) (partly from experience) Hurd seems much slower than
On Fri, Apr 30, 1999 at 12:47:57AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > bzip2 decompression, which is a free block-sorting algorithm that
> > yields smaller files than gzip at the expense of some extra time and
> > memory.
> Be careful. Although the time is probably not a matter even for older
> mach
OKUJI Yoshinori <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My patch enables serverboot to decompress gz and bz2 format as well
> as exec and libstore to decompress bz2 format. By using this patch,
> you can compress the executables that serverboot executes, such as fs
> server.
>
> ftp://duff.kuicr.kyoto-u.
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> Well, not that I would recommend installing Mach on any low end machine...
Which is a problem in a couple of regards:
1) (partly from experience) Hurd seems much slower than Linux. Is this an
issue that's going to be addressed...?
2) Most people who
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot floppies [was: an important task]
Date: 29 Apr 1999 16:25:22 -0600
> bzip2 decompression, which is a free block-sorting algorithm that
> yields smaller files than gzip at the expense of some extra time and
> memory.
I
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 04:25:22PM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> > Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:
>
> TBB> It is already the case that the Hurd exec server understands
> TBB> gzipped executables, if -DGZIP is given at compile time (which
> TBB> is the default).
>
> TBB> What additional
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:
TBB> It is already the case that the Hurd exec server understands
TBB> gzipped executables, if -DGZIP is given at compile time (which
TBB> is the default).
TBB> What additional work did Uchiyama do that you are referring to?
bzip2 decompression, which is a
Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Finally, UCHIYAMA patched GRUB, /boot/serverboot, and /hurd/exec to
> make them understand bzip2 compression. I'd like to make a similar
> patch to the boot-floppies package, which will benefit all Debian
> users in reducing the number of floppies r
On 29 Apr 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
> eliminate the steps that are irrelevant to the Hurd (choosing charset, ...
Arg! choosing the keyboard layout should not be irrelevant ;-)
Using the Hurd with a non-US keyboard is certainly difficult.
I guess a lot of new volunteers will arrive as soon a
From: Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: boot floppies [was: an important task]
Date: 29 Apr 1999 11:15:26 -0600
> If somebody wants to do it, they will need a solid understanding of
> GRUB, and have to be prepared to hack on it to make the installation
> process work
> Thomas Bushnell, BSG writes:
TBB> It is pretty important that we make it possible for people to
TBB> install Debian GNU/Hurd without having to first install
TBB> GNU/Linux.
Agreed.
What this entails is ``porting'' the Debian boot-floppies package to
use gnumach and the Hurd. The basic
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