On Mon, Jul 26, 1999 at 04:15:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > So I say, if you can't boot the Hurd directly off floppy or floppies, > > then don't bother with installation floppies at all. > > Would it be possible to include "programs" on a GRUB-floppy? > Imagine a patitioning/newfs tool (useful annyway), and a "HURD-installer". > The installer must be able to fetch a minimum HURD installation from > somewhere (insert floppy B and press RETURN...) and put it on a partition. Hm... I think about some-other-OS as a host-for-installation-programms. Sure, it's not so bad idea to do an installation like in NetBSD-vax: a tape (floppy) with standalone repartitioning and miniroot-copying programs. That programms can be based on a gnumach kernel, without any extentions - we just need to copy a miniroot with prepared fs to a small part of prepared partition (without formatting, we already have a small fs in miniroot). I'd recommend to use swap partition for miniroot, like it was in NetBSD-vax. After miniroot installation we cat reboot Hurd and continue with a Debian-like installation procedure.
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