I installed Debian GNU/Hurd today. Here are my comments on various things. If you reply to just one of them, please change the subject.
The comments in the cross-install script were unclear about which perl packages are needed. I then decided to download just perl-base, since it was so much smaller. Apparently this was the wrong choice, as install-info needed ENOENT from POSIX.pm which was not included. I was able to hack around that, but couldn't POSIX.pm be moved to perl-base? GNUmach crashes on boot if I reboot the computer without pressing Reset. Everything goes well until it should detect the network card (an ISA NE2000 clone), then it just stops. The GNUmach image from the gnu-0.2 binary does this too. Linux doesn't. The ext2fs server was unable to mount my 3-gigabyte GNU/Linux partition. What is the maximum size and will this be fixed? Because of BIOS problems with the 4.3GB IDE disk, I have a separate partition for /boot. In it, I have subdirectories grub/ and linux/ for GRUB files and Linux images. It would be nice if Hurd's /boot/gnumach and /boot/serverboot were moved to /boot/hurd/. /boot/servers.boot could be in /etc/. The /info/dir file installed by base-files.postinst refers to "Debian Linux". I was rather surprised when I saw Hurd actually use EIEIO and EGRATUITOUS. Could someone explain those errors to me, for the sake of libc.fi.po?
