Hi! Maybe I found a solution.
I'll try to boot tomsrtbt (a one-floppy-linux) and will replace Linux with the Hurd from there. That should work (unless yet another tomsrtbt-bug will prevent this). Copying lots of data via floppy from one box to another is really fun. :-) Wolfgang J�hrling wrote: > I already had fun with the Hurd (more or less) some time ago as > I installed the 19990505-Snapshot on my "good" box (i586/166Mhz > :)) but I did not use a swap-partition for the Hurd and it was > *verry* unstable. > > Now I want to replace the Debian GNU/Linux-system on my old > box with the Hurd but I don't know how to install it because > there is no room to create a second partition to extract the > tarball on. > > I couldn't find anything related to this in the list-archive. -- Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

