I am kind of discovering (oh well, I knew Hurd existed, but had not care much before) Hurd, mostly because of
today Brian Lunduke post: https://youtu.be/OJb7arRTv-w I have been able to play a bit with more official version (2019 version). But when I tried to download from: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/daily/debian-sid-hurd-i386-NETINST-1.iso I believe md5sum is: b323b82a346da446ff11fa0394144c55 or from: https://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/monthly-1/debian-sid-hurd-i386-NETINST-1.iso I believe md5sum is: 9109549cb488750d310eb1c973552db7 When doing: it hang on: "start ext2fs: " (waited about 10 mins on i3-8100). Hum... while writing this I discovered that the problem only happens if I omit the the -m 1G parameter to qemu-system-i386. Default is 128 MiB. Oh well, writing this message, that could maybe help others making the same mistake. Maybe, it could give a more appropriate message too.