Bonjour Yann! Thanks for your translations of the recent French Linux magazine summaries. It's nice to see interest in the Hurd becoming more widespread.
> of the Debian team. In fact the upcoming "potato" distribution > should be released both in GNU/Linux and GNU/Hurd versions. From a text > of Matthew Vernon (http://www.pick.ucam.org/~mcv21/hurd.html)." > I was going to correct you about this -- as a Debian developer I am not optimistic that we will meet the Potato deadline to release the Hurd. There are still some important pieces missing. However, the Potato freeze date keeps slipping, so who knows? ;-) > That's all up to now. Hope this will be helpful. No doubt > there will be more articles about Hurd in Linux Magazine because > they've added "& Hurd" after "Linux" in their title page. > Any comment is welcome. > This is wonderful! It would be nice to get some print coverage every now and then. Hopefully the Hurd will be a bit more usable before too much longer. I think if you play with it you will agree -- and if you had tried it even 6 months ago you would be amazed at how much more usable it is today. > -------------------- > > I also need some help. The descriiption of my trouble follows: > > I've downloaded (1999/11/07) the binary distribution of the Hurd from > ftp.debian.org. It is cross-install'ed on /dev/hda3 (I followed the > process described in the first article). > > I get the following message at boot time (before doing > native-install): > > Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs.static[hd0s3] execext2fs.static: > ../../libdiskfs/boot-start.c:416: > diskfs_execboot_fsys_startup: Unexpected > error: No such file or directory. > memory_object_data_request(0x0, 0x0, 0x2000, 0x1000, 0x1) failed, > 268435459 > > Then the system hangs. > It looks like you don't have a swap partition set up. You should visit http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd.html and find the link to the "Easy Guide for Installation" to get a step-by-step. Things advance rapidly around here, and the steps in the magazine article might be slightly out of date now. The Hurd still has some memory issues, so a fairly sizable swap partition is a good idea. You probably need to edit the file /boot/servers.boot on your hurd partition and tell it where to find the swap partition. Step-by-step instructions are in that easy guide. Please write back if you have trouble finding the info or have any more difficulties. Welcome to the Hurd, -Brent
