> Has anyone thought much about how Hurd's equivalent of boot-floppies > will work? Presumably one could copy the Debian GNU/Linux package quite > closely, using the libraries slang and newt to provide windows and > menus on a VSA screen in text mode. However, when I was trying to > localise that package I ran into some difficulties, mainly the problem > of using a different character set. So, if, by any chance, someone has > already thought about a different way of doing it, I would be > interested to hear about it.
This is a pet project of mine. Unfortunatly, I see little point in doing this whilst passwords are not supported. I was told on hurd-help that USA encryption laws prevent them from including the algorhythm that does password checks :(. I think recompiling hurd may solve this, but I've never done that before. As to boot floppies, I think that to start with a very simple interface would do (possibly using libreadline, but nothing more), given that most of the hurd install is simple once you know what you're doing :-) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
