I have had problems with the current packages booting so I went back and grabbed the tarball, a little old but it got me to a prompt. So I ran native-install and everything started out well. Then it got to:
Setting up libc0.2 (2.1.2-0pre12) ... Running `tzconfig\` to set this system's timezone. (default pager): dropping data_request because of previous paging errors repeated many times. My machine is a k6/200 with nothing but a video card and an ethernet, but Im not sure if the hardware is the problem. I can give a detailed description if needed but it's not my machine so I would have to dig around to find out all the hardware specs. Any suggestions are appreciated. This is my first time trying out the hurd and I don't have microkernel experience. Thanks... --John "We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way." - Huxley

