> Hi, basically I am writing because I simply want to install Hurd from > scratch. I was wondering if anyone out there could help me. Bottom line > is if I need to install Linux I will, but I have put aside an x86 > machine explicitly to run Hurd and don't feel like installing anything > else. Any assistance in this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank > you.
Hmm. YOu could try doing what the linux install does - boot using /dev/ram as /, and work from there to do the partitioning, and untar marcus' big tar.gz. You'd need a reasonable amount of ram for it to work, but that's basically what a linux install does, so I think it's doable. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://www.pick.ucam.org/
