On Sun, 24 May 2009, മഹേഷ് മുകുന്ദന് | Mahesh M wrote: > Hi, > > 2009/5/23 Thomas Schwinge <[email protected]> > > > [Posting this to bug-hurd -- Mahesh, I hope that's fine?] > > > > > > > > Hello! > > > > On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 11:06:57AM +0530, മഹേഷ് മുകുന്ദന് | Mahesh M wrote: > > > I was able to re-master a live cd, boot it, create a ramdisk, > > > create a chroot environment in ramdisk, run sh in chroot, fdisk an > > > attached hdd > > > > and > > > > > mount it. > > > > > > Now this is what GNU/Linux does in the current installer and thus > > > it can > > > > be > > > > > completely replaced. Current method DO NOT install grub. In Hurd, > > > Grub is broken too.. (It doesnt know how to talk to Mach -- > > > tschwinge). As per current installation, a baseGNU.tgz is > > > uncompressed and dumped into the target hdd, from where a > > > "native-install" script is used to configure > > > > some > > > > > of the files. This can be done as of now. > > > > Great! Please take some minutes to properly document what you've > > done and how you've done that, so that we can put this documentation > > online. (Just talk to me and I'll tell you where to put it.) > > Sure. I will do that soon. > This is good news. I am retiring!!
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