I just had to reinstall the Hurd because I was just getting too many fs corruption problems with the previous installation. I d/led the latest versions of all the required packages (and some more to make a development system). Then I used cross-install, so far everything went ok. However the first time that I rebooted I found that: 1) /boot/servers.boot was missing instead there wasonly /boot/servers.boot.dpkg-new 2) /servers/exec was missing, apparently ext2fs.static needs this node to exist to run, other wise it gives a file not found error. 3) /libexec/runsystem was missing, only /libexec/runsystem.gnu was there. 4) there was no /bin/perl executable (only /bin/perl5.00...) so native-install failed at some point.
I think 2) and 3) are very important since those errors do not allow Hurd to boot properly (a freeze or never get to a shell). They should be fixed to allow fresh installations using cross-install. What I finally did is use an old (19991025) tarball and then cross-install the .debs on top because I didn't want to correct all the errors by hand. Igor
