On Monday 29 July 2002 04:02, you wrote:
> > On Friday 26 July 2002 19:26, Giridharan Rajagopalan wrote:
> > > anybody got GNU Hurd CD to install on Linux box?Has anyone tried it?
> > >
> > > thanks in advance.
> >
> > I have recently installed GNU Hurd from Linux.
>
> Linux has nothing to do with HURD though it looks a lot like Debian.
I meant that I used GNU/Linux to install GNU/Hurd,
because before booting the CD, I mounted it and read
/hurd-doc/hurd-install-guide.txt by Neal H Walfield
It says
<quote>
The Debian GNU/Hurd distribution, unlike distributions of other
operating systems, does not have a nice installation program. One day
it will and maybe you will help design and implement it. However,
until then, installing GNU/Hurd requires that you install the base
system from another operating system, specifically, another Unix-like
system. Reports have come in that people have successfully installed
the Hurd from several different flavors of GNU/Linux and the BSDs. As
for other systems, it should not be a problem, that is, assuming it
provides a Unix-like environment. No matter how one approaches it, the
only Hurd distribution is based on Debian, as such, cross installing
from Debian GNU/Linux could make life a bit easier.
</quote>
>
> Incidentally HURD has its own development team who are working very hard
> on it to release it. A stable non buggy version should be out in another 3
> years.
> > But actually Linux is not needed. The CD (Debian)
> > is bootable and loads Linux to install Hurd.
> > The system is working fine.
>
> Also it is not Debian ! though it strongly resembles it !
The file /README-or-FAIL says
<quote>
This CD set is a heavily modified Debian installation disc set which
will only install Hurd. The CD was produced with butchered debian-cd and
boot-floppies scripts. Most of the Debian documentation has been retained
which may be of use to people not used to Debian installations, but be
careful,
it has a Linux taste. All the Hurd .deb packages are included on the CDs and
</quote>
>
> > But I have two problems. Could someone help?
> >
> > 1. The swap partition is not mounted and I
> > don't know how to create the transalators.
>
> The Swap partitions should have been created in step 2 or three of the
> installation procedure. I dont know how you could have missed it.
I didn't boot the CD and follow the installation procedure.
I did what was told in the file /hurd-doc/hurd-install-guide.txt
Accordingly my /etc/fstab reads
/dev/hd0s8 / ext2 defaults 0 1
/dev/hd0s5 none swap sw 0 0
But I still get an error. BTW /dev/hda5 is the
swap partition under Linux. I think that can be used
under Hurd also. Maybe I didn't create the devices
using MAKEDEV. I had no time to read the man pages.
Will try to take a try this weekend.
> > 2. I have not yet mounted an iso9660 CD ROM.
> > How should I create a device file for /dev/hdc
> > And how should I mount an iso9660 filesystem?
> > I am not able to read the documents in the
> > CD without mounting it, So I am unable to proceed.
>
> I very strongly suggest that you copy all the HURD ISO's onto your hard
> disk and then proceed with the installation. It would be faster and much
> easier.That is what I did for Debian. But one has to modify the
/etc/sources.lst
> file to cater to installation from the HDD.
> HURD is very buggy and its going to be a long time before it actually
> stabilises. Debian is out with potato and even Woody is not all that bad.
> But Hurd has a customized Kernel which has nothing to Do with Linus
> Torvalds so it would be fallacious to call it Linux.
I never said so.
> best regards
> Tom !
>
> P.S: I see that you are in CSE. I am in MIT chromepet. I can lend you all
> the 7 ISOs of Debian(Woody) R.3 or write them for you if you like. Also
> available are FReeBSD and Debian(Potato) R2.4.
Thanks a lot. I will work out some way to get Woody.
>
>
>
>
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From K. Robertson" <scooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx Mon Jul 29 22:17:26 2002
From: K. Robertson" <scooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx (K. Robertson)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:17:26 -0700
Subject: [Ilugc] SCUZZZI
Message-ID: <000601c2374d$b860b430$0b00a8c0@zone2000>
SCUZZI is 'HOT'
IDE is 'NOT'..
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Cheers,
K.Robertson
From K. Robertson" <scooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx Mon Jul 29 22:56:56 2002
From: K. Robertson" <scooper@xxxxxxxxxxxx (K. Robertson)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:56:56 -0700
Subject: [Ilugc] No Juice ?
Message-ID: <000b01c23753$3cffb740$0b00a8c0@zone2000>
NO, not the Mango Juice.
The juice that powers the little penguin!
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Cheers,
K.Robertson
