Collin Funk wrote: > If you reboot you > will be prompted to 'fsck' in a recovery shell. But that never works
Huh? For me, that usually works. When I get tired of pressing 'y', I press 'a', and the rest is automatic. Here are my current installation notes: Download: https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-amd64/debian-hurd-amd64-20250807.img.tar.xz -> debian-hurd-amd64-20250807.img.tar.xz README is at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2025-08/msg00008.html https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/latest/hurd-amd64/YES_REALLY_README.txt $ VBoxManage convertfromraw os-install-media/debian-hurd-amd64-20250807.img virtualbox/Hurd-2025-64/hurd.vmdk --format vmdk Tools > Virtual Media Manager > Add. Choose this disk as IDE disk. Fix reboot loop: $ VBoxManage modifyvm Hurd-2025-64 --hpet=on login: root Setting the time zone: Cf. https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8345213 # dpkg-reconfigure tzdata # adduser --shell /bin/bash USERNAME login: USERNAME password: PASSWORD # vi /etc/group Add USERNAME to the line 'sudo'. Can't ssh to 10.0.2.2 (neither with NAT nor with Bridged networking). # vi /etc/hosts Add line with the host's real IPv4 address.
