On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 11:05:24PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > 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.
I don't know what the plans for these boot floppies are, but I was just thinking... there's really no reason we couldn't use linux on the boot floppies if that makes it easier. Just throwing the idea out, Ian
