Hello! I have sucessfully installed a basic Debian GNU/Hurd system on my computer using the *-install scripts the easy guide. Thanks!
No problems whatsoever. I even recompiled GNUmach (to remove the slew of drivers and reducing the kernel size by half) and Hurd from the CVS source. But don't worry I'll do my best to crash it. ;) The only thing I am curious about is why 'make install' on hurd/ doesn't also recurse on the subdirectories utils/ sutils/ and trans/? I had to do it manually. No problem here, of course, of course. Also, one thing I noticed is that /etc/localtime on Hurd is pointing to /usr/share/localtime and /etc/timezone is a 1-byte file. On normal Debian/Linux systems, localtime points to /usr/share/localtime/xxx/yyy and timezone contains "xxx/yyy". (I bet this is the reason that all files I create on hurd via linux become one day older then I boot into hurd :P) Also, I can't mount my 4 gig linux partition (but this is a bug already mentioned here). fc -- http://www.riverrun.com.br/
