I'm updating my cross-installation instructions at http://people.ne.mediaone.net/jtobey/inst.html. Matthew Vernon: we ought to merge this page with your "idiot's guide", either by you updating the Guide to talk about Debian (if you haven't already) or by me incorporating the relevant parts into my instructions.
I have installed and booted with no trouble from the libc0.2_2.0.109-0.1 and timezones_2.0.109-0.1 packages, thank you Gordon. I used somewhat hacked/debugged versions of Marcus's dpkg_hurd and hurd_inst scripts, which are linked to from my installation page. I got slightly different output from Steve Favor's: dpkg had some additional things to say about md5sum while installing certain packages, including base-files. Downloading again produced no diff against the original deb. Here is a diff of my output versus that reported by Steve (http://www.corridor.com/~sfavor/hurd-faq/base-files_2.1.log): --- /tmp/base-files_2.1.log Wed Jan 13 00:39:45 1999 +++ /home/jtobey/tmp Wed Jan 13 00:40:05 1999 @@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ dpkg-deb: building package `base-files' in `temp_build/base-files.deb'. Selecting previously deselected package base-files. -(Reading database ... 596 files and directories currently installed.) +(Reading database ... 194 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking base-files (from temp_build/base-files.deb) ... -dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of base-files: +dpkg: base-files: dependency problems, but configuring anyway as you request: base-files depends on awk; however: Package awk is not installed. +Setting up base-files (2.1) ... dpkg: error processing base-files (--install): - dependency problems - leaving unconfigured + md5sum gave malformatted output `a61b9f6548d337c1cc1e5a4de39f7b7f' Errors were encountered while processing: base-files In case it matters, my dpkg version is 1.4.0.23.2, and I am running it on a (blush) Red Hat system. (just copied the various dpkg* files, plus their required libs, start-stop-daemon, and update-rc.d from my Debian-2.0 machine) I'm running into some difficulties with the multi-user boot, but it doesn't look too hard to fix. I probably just need to install some more "STRONGLY RECOMMENDED" packages. After I get some sleep... Good night! -John
