Re: Booting Debian GNU/Hurd

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >This is too big.  Better use a smaller filesystem.  A 4GB
   >filesystem only works with a patched Hurd build, which is not easy
   >to set up when you are new to GNU/Hurd, I think.

   But GNU Mach 1.3 support file system >2Gb. Am I right?

Sorta, GNU Mach 1.3 (and later) support _partitions_ that are larger
than 10gb.  It isn't the kernel that is at fault here, but the ext2fs
translator in the Hurd which maps the whole drive into memory.  And on
32-bit machines you can only map 2gb into memory.