On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote: > Hi all, > > I've downloaded all the hurd packages mentioned in 'cross-install' and > I've installed hurd with it to hd1s1. > > FIRST PROBLEM: > The disk is about 520 mbs. It has 528 cilinders. In linux fdisk I create a > single partition from 1 to 528. Grub is unable to read that partition. It > determines the filesystem ext2 correctly but says when reading the kernel: > 'Unable to access block outside partition' or something. I've decreased > the last cilinder to 500 instead of 528 and it works fine.
That's right, the maximum size of the HURD partition is limited. I think it can currently only handle a maximum of 1GB because it maps the disk to memory and it can only address 1GB. > SECOND PROBLEM: > Booting hurd the first time (single-user mode), I run native-install. The > first error is in libc configuration when ask for timezone. It shows an > error first, and then, asks 'Number:'. What should I say here ? (I'm in > spain). I've put a random timezone. Then, hurd says that it will run dpkg > twice to set up pendent packages. Ok. The first time, it shows a lot of > errors (as the script warns), but when running the second time, it does > nothing. It says 'Setting up <package>...' and stays there (I've > redownloaded all the packages to see if that was a download error). It > always stop in the first package, so, I can do nothing more!!! I had exactly this problem when I had created the HURD partition with a too recent version of mke2fs, from e2fsprogs 1.15. After downgrading to 1.12, it worked. If you use 1.15 you _must_ downgrade because there will be a lot of other problems too otherwise. > THIRD PROBLEM: > I've downloaded the tarball to see if it goes better that packages. I > untar it and it goes worse! It is unable to configure anything. When > native-install is run, it configures first awk and libc, but it's unable > to do it. And it stays in the same place when running the second time > dpkg as I said before. Correct the above and try again with the .deb's, it works every time for me now. Regards, Pontus -- Pontus Lidman, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Development & support manager No matter how cynical you get, it's impossible to keep up. Scene: www.dc-s.com | MUD: tyme.envy.com 6969 | irc: irc.quakenet.eu.org
