One thing I noticed trying to install hurd is that the directory debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-hurd-i386/ which http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install directs you to doesn't contain the correct files. noteably libgdbmg1 and ncurses-base are missing. im not really sure if these files are even meant to be used with the current set of files for installing hurd. at any rate the directory debian/dists/sid/main/binary-hurd-i386 do contain the right files and you can get this link from Matthew Vernon's http://www.pick.ucam.org/~mcv21/hurd.html page. The problem, of course, is that this is really confusing for someone who doesn't know to go to the right place, as the debian hurd page tells you to go to another page. Anyways I would just suggest that the debian page is changed, or that dists/sid and dists/unstable are synced with one another.
-- seriously, sk�t
