Hi! >>>>> Jules Bean writes:
JB> --On Sat, Nov 7, 1998 5:53 pm +0100 "Marcus Brinkmann" JB> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> 3) They have some non-Hurd-based system, and a free partition (or >>> disk space for a subdir install). I'm very interested in >>> supporting this case, because the vast majority of people >>> interested in the Hurd are in this category. The approach is as >>> you state: install the ``base'', then we have case #1 again. MB> I can't see why it is so important to support this case. As you MB> don't know what OS is installed, you have trouble supporting MB> the user with this option Actually, I know exactly what OS is installed - it's another free *nix (which I should have mentioned in my original message). I don't intend to do anything more fancy with this option than extend it to people who wanted to try gnu-0.2, but didn't have the desire to download the whole tarball. This is also useful so that people with non-Debian systems can get involved with cross-compiling. You don't need a fully dpkg-managed Hurd platform to be able to cross-compile .debs. I'm simply trying to find quick ways so that it's not just Debian users who can help us. >> Especially, if they already have a free partition, they can use >> the base disks, too: Once we have the base disks, case #3 is irrelevant, but before we have the base disks, it is very, very relevant. JB> Gordon sees it as a very important goal (and I see his point) JB> that someone can try hurd *without* a free partition. JB> This requires, obviously, a special boot loader for each host OS JB> along the lines of loadlin, with the ability to use a regular JB> file as the root device. This is true, too, but I wasn't thinking about it when I posted my message. I guess the main point here is that I didn't effectively communicate my time frame or my audience. I'm thinking of people who want to help build Debian GNU/Hurd, and the task I wish to accomplish is easy enough to finish in the next couple of days. -- Gordon Matzigkeit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> //\ I'm a FIG (http://www.fig.org/) Lovers of freedom, unite! \// I use GNU (http://www.gnu.org/)
