On Mon, Aug 16, 1999 at 02:24:46AM +0300, Kalle Olavi Niemitalo wrote: > "Nuno Emanuel F. Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I already searched for "mbr" package on "Contents-hurd-i386.gz" and didn't > > found > > such package. > > Where could I found it ? > > Use the version in binary-i386/base. The i386 vs. hurd-i386 > difference doesn't matter since the code gets loaded before the > operating system. "dpkg --force-architecture" should do the job.
Yes, a seperate Hurd version is not strictly needed, but we don't have this fine graduation in the archive (yet?). > After installing the package, you need to get /boot/mbr.b in > the MBR. I can't remember how I did that; This will work: dd if=/boot/mbr.b of=$disk bs=444 count=1 > I suppose the package could easily be compiled for hurd-i386. I think so. The autobuilder will catch this when I have prepared it (sorry for the horrible delay with this beast). Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org finger brinkmd@ Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org master.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] for public PGP Key http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ PGP Key ID 36E7CD09
