Trouble installing hurd...

2000-04-19 Thread Michael Drueing
Hi, I just wanted to install HURD on my spare 340Mb Disk (IDE) and I now have a little (well, it's not that little...) problem: I ran cross-install from my linux-system and it installed everything without any problems. I quickly browsed the directories created and eveything looked OK. So I fired

Re: recent events

2000-04-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 03:04:54PM +0100, David Nowak wrote: > That is too early. I mean this is a serious problem that people are > interested in Hurd NOW because they could be seriously disappointed by its > current inefficiency. Disk access is so slow! I hope it will be > improved and I

Re: Documentors/Documentation

2000-04-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 09:17:57PM +0200, Jan Atle Ramsli wrote: > What I'm trying to say, is that I have _NO___I_D_E_A how to get my updates from me >to (???) For all development issues, like if you have a patch or contribution or specific questions that help you achieving such, mail [EMAIL PRO

Re: Slow disk access

2000-04-19 Thread Martin v. Loewis
> Note that both OSF and NT are based on Mach technology Just to disturb an urban legend: Windows NT is *not* based on Mach technology. Regards, Martin

Re: Slow disk access

2000-04-19 Thread Juho Östman
At 12:51 19.4.2000 -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote: >> That is too early. I mean this is a serious problem that people are >> interested in Hurd NOW because they could be seriously disappointed by its >> current inefficiency. Disk access is so slow! I hope it will be >> improved and I wonder

Re: Documentors/Documentation

2000-04-19 Thread Jan Atle Ramsli
Chris Lingard wrote: > > Jeff Bailey wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 07:15:26PM +0200, Jan Atle Ramsli wrote: > > > > > Jeff Bailey was mentioned - is he the 'Doc'-man? > > > > Not exactly. I'm trying to collect documentation to form sort of a > > "Hurd-HOWTO" site. My biggest interest is

Re: Documentors/Documentation

2000-04-19 Thread Chris Lingard
Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 07:15:26PM +0200, Jan Atle Ramsli wrote: > > > Jeff Bailey was mentioned - is he the 'Doc'-man? > > Not exactly. I'm trying to collect documentation to form sort of a > "Hurd-HOWTO" site. My biggest interest is for helping do-it-yourselfers, > but I'

Re: Slow disk access

2000-04-19 Thread Neal H Walfield
> That is too early. I mean this is a serious problem that people are > interested in Hurd NOW because they could be seriously disappointed by its > current inefficiency. Disk access is so slow! I hope it will be > improved and I wonder why it is so inefficient. Any idea ? There are too m

Re: recent events

2000-04-19 Thread David Nowak
> > Has anybody else noticed the increase in the amount of emails this list is >receiving?I am seeing > > an increase in traffic on the freebsd-questions list also. It is almost like linux >is not cool > > anymore andpeople are looking for the next "underground OS". > > That's probably part of