Package: hurd Version: 19991004 Hi,
Finally, found the time to install the hurd via Marcus Brinkmann's cross-install and stuff. All in all a success. All responsible please accept my congratulations. Things went well more or less. Some minor remarks. 1. When the native-install crashed on me (see below) there was no way to get things working without going to a running Linux and doing and e2fsck. This was because there was no /dev/hd0s[0-9] to do an e2fsck on. Is there no way to create this node before the hurd boots just in case? 2. The system used to repeatedly crash with paging errors until I added swap (200MB of it). In particular, dselect did so repeatedly. There should probably be a remark (in the docs) to the effect that lots of virtual memory is required. 3. I also managed to build (using utils from dpkg-hurd-dev) various packages but got some crashes on the way. These stopped once I started doing periodic "syncs". 4. The standard "debian/rules binary" build procedure seems to produce the correct binaries but flags them with archicture "i386" instead of "hurd-i386". How does one correct this? 5. Now I have to figure out how I can help this development. Thanks and regards, Kapil.
