On Fri, 06 Aug 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 11:01:07AM +0200, Eberhard Burr wrote: > > I've been unable to find a quick answer to this question in the web, > > therefore I have to bother you with this. > > Well, you may want to try > > http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install > > which has a fat link to the Hardware Compatibility Guide on top of the page. > > > My System has an AMD K6 processor, Matrox Millennium II video (I could > > replace it with an S3 986 based card) and only IBM harddisk on an Asus > > SC 200 (NCR 810 based) controller. > > The SCSI controller will be a problem. This is NCR53C8XX right? This driver > is not included in the binary distributed kernel, because it breaks non-SCSI > systems. You would have to compile your own kernel. Chicken and egg problem. > I can compile you a custom kernel, but not before I leave for holidays. Drop > me a mail if you can't cross compile a kernel and nobody else on this list > steps in. Actually cross compiling the gnumach kernel is not that hard, infact it's about the only that that i was able to cross-compile. You can read my "easy" guide to doing that at http://pages.hotbot.com/sf/igorkh/gnumach-cross.txt Any questions or comments from more experiensed develpers are welcome.
Igor
