On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 05:04:11PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote: > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > > > I don't know whether anyone is working on this yet or not but... > > > > It is pretty important that we make it possible for people to install > > Debian GNU/Hurd without having to first intall GNU/Linux. > > > > Is someone working on this? Is there a volunteer willing to take it > > on? > > I believe the plan is to compile a base set of the HURD that can be > installed via tar zxvfp gnu-xxxxxx.tar.gz onto an ext2 partition. Once > the system is expanded onto it, the user can boot the HURD from there > (with a GRUB floppy) and then use the HURD's native packaging system > (dpkg) to handle the rest of the installation.
This is the very first step. There is no way around a good set of Debian's boot floppies for the Hurd. Of course, the work I have put into cross-install will be directly useful. Indeed, for the first time cross-install could be embedded into the boot floppies. Focus is probably to get a tiny Hurd system from boot floppies, AFAIK. 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
