On Fri, 3 Sep 1999, Pontus Lidman wrote: > > 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.
But the disk is less than 1GB... only 520 mbs. > > > 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. OH!! It works now! Is that a bug of the hurd? > > > 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. And I had to copy the new native-install to the tarball. Well, I've deleted the large tar. Many thanks, bye. > > 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 > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ---------------------------------------- Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://jmmv.cjb.net ---------------------------------------- >>> Running Debian/GNU Linux 2.2
