On 7 Sep, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 12:43:53AM -0400, Igor Khavkine wrote: >> On another note, i've finally overcome some hardware problems that i had >> and have been able to install hurd on my system (yoo hoo!), so for now >> i'm leaving my cross compilation efforts aside and moving on to creating >> a development environment under the hurd. > > Any reason not to use the Debian packages? > >> Also any progress on PnP or custom (IO, IRQ, MEM) configuration for >> devices? (i have an NE2000 PnP card with no jumpers which isn't being >> detected). > > I don't think anybody is working on it. > > Marcus >
I think you misunderstood, I did install hurd using the .debs. However, i don't think i installed gcc properly so when i was actually trying to compile stuff i was getting 'dynamic linker bug' messages from ld. If i tried without linking i was getting some other kind of obscure message from gcc. The problem was fixed by installing the gcc and related .debs agian. However, I have now stumbled on an strange problem. When i was trying to install my dpkg packages i was getting gzip crc-check failiures, i found that the file was indeed corrupt so i red/led it. Later on i encountered the same kind of problem while trying to install cpp, this time however it uncompressed fine under linux. But just in case i devised a small shell script under the hurd that would scan try to unpack all my debs one at a time in to a test directory and the erase the contents of that directory, if the unpacking failed the name of the package was supposed to be added to a file. What's interesting is that this log files turns out to be empty and (not even cpp in it) and everything works fine from then on. But the problem recurrs everytime i reboot and try to install a package. I have to run the same script all over again to fix things. However my deb collection is getting larger and it's becoming mor timeconsuming and I don't really have an idea which step in my script fixes the problem. Any ideas where the bug could be? ext2fs, the caching engine, gzip? Igor
