Re: Minimalistic Hurd ?

[Marco Gerards]

Je vous site <contact@je-vous-site.com> writes:

> Hello the Hurd,
>
> I'm interested to test the hurd on an old computer of mine,
> I've heard of the debian/hurd project and i would like to know if this
> is the only one.

There is Bee GNU/Hurd and Gentoo GNU/Hurd as well, but I am not sure
if those work (and if so, how well they work).  Better use Debian
GNU/Hurd, most people use that and it works fine.

> Is there a minimalistic hurd with a bootable micro-kernel and the
> necessaries translators to have a system running ?

There is a Debian GNU/Hurd mini-iso with a base system.  That is the
smallest system you can get.  The ISO is 30 MB:

http://eu.hurd.gnuab.org/pub/debian-cd/K6/debian-K6-hurd-i386-mini.iso
(please read the GNU/Hurd installation guide before installing)

What kind of system do you want to install GNU/Hurd on?  Your computer
should not be too old (32MB RAM, 2 GB hd and a P166 is about the
minimum you want to work with).

--
Marco