On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 10:36:55AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Igor Khavkine wrote: > Then I used cross-install, so far everything went ok. > > Please give me the version number of cross install. > Compare it with the version at > > www.debian.org/ports/hurd/extra-files/cross-install > The version of cross-install that i used is the same as the one at this url. I even just looked inside it and supposedly it does all of the things that it didn't do for me the first time. I can't explain why it didn't work for me the first time. But apparently it was a false alarm... sorry
Igor > > 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 am pretty sure that all of these are fixed since months. > Where did you get cross-install from? > > > 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. > > Better even install the debs natively. > > Marcus

