A group in India has produced an installer for the Hurd which they are offering to GNU. It consists of an .iso with the basic binaries and a shell script to do the installation.
My machines aren't in a state where I can try it myself. Can anyone else give it a whirl? Here's the information they've provided. Thanks, Karl ** Package name and version: Package Name: Hurd LX Installer Version : 0.1 ** Author Full Name <Email>: Kiran Chand K, k.kiranchand/gmail/com Raghesh A, raghesh.a/gmail/com ** URL to home page (if any): http://projecthurd.googlepages.com ** URL to sources (if any): http://gnu.ethz.ch/hurd ** Brief description of the package: The Hurd LX installer is the successor of Debian K Series installer(Potato), which finishes the installation with successfully configuring X. It avoids the complicated installation procedure of the previous K14 installer. * Similar projects: Please explain what motivated you to write your package, and search at least the Free Software Directory (http://www.gnu.org/directory/) for projects similar to yours. If any exist, please also explain what the principal differences are. The current HURD(k14) works using the 2.1 (Slink) installation system, although it was updated to 2.2 (Potato). This old installation system unpacked a tarball onto the target Hard Drive and then booted into this system on the Hard Drive. The GNU installation uses the baseGNU tarball. The Linux installation ramdisk has been modified to prepare the target HD to receive the baseHURD tarball. We created a new installer which avoids the complicated installation procedure of the previous K14 installer. The installed system boots into X directly. * Any other information, comments, or questions: The project is not completed yet. Currently the script will not check for wrong inputs given by the user. The changes will be incorporated soon. The detection of other operating systems installed in the system is not automated completely. We are planning to use some os prober tool.