On Tue, Feb 23, 1999 at 02:15:22PM +0200, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > 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?
I will clarify the comment. # perl-base_5.00404, perl really means you need both, perl and perl-base. POSIX.pm will _not_ be moved to perl-base, because the whole idea of perl-base is to have a small minimal perl which fits on the boot disk. The right solution is to fix install-info and dpkg-divert (IIRC) not to need ENOENT at all. Patches are welcome (not just hacks, we need to make IanJ happy). > 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. I had problems with my network card until I removed it. I have a cheap ISA NE2000 clone. > The ext2fs server was unable to mount my 3-gigabyte GNU/Linux > partition. What is the maximum size and will this be fixed? Currently, there is about a 1 GB limit. Certainly this will be fixed, but there is no one who I know currently working on it. > 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/. /boot/hurd is sort of redundant, because your configuration is pretty unusual. You can help yourself by setting grub options correctly. title= hurd (hd2s1 multi-user) root= (hd0,0) # SET /boot PART. HERE kernel= /boot/hurd/gnumach root=hd2s1 # but real Hurd part. here module= /boot/hurd/serverboot # I am not sure about this, though. > The /info/dir file installed by base-files.postinst refers to > "Debian Linux". Bug reported. Thanks. Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
