This method works while installing from windows as well because the the tomsrtbt distribution includes FAT32 support so you can just copy it over and have hurd installed in 2 boots.
The docs generally only mention installing from linux which I imagine some people might resent if they don't think their way around it. Shouldn't this way be documented somewhere? (If anyone thinks so I could do it) ----- Original Message ----- From: "R Joseph Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 2:29 PM Subject: install from FreeBSD > Someone posted a message asking if I had successfully installed from > FreeBSD. I lost the message, so I can't reply directly. > Yes, I installed it successfully. I actually used a combination of Linux > and FreeBSD. First, I downloaded a one-floppy Linux distribution called > tomsrtbt. I booted with that and used it to create the ext2fs filesystem, > because I had no luck finding out whether I could do that from FreeBSD, > although I suspect it can be done. It's very important to use the " -o > hurd" option when creating the filesystem. > Then, I compiled ext2fs support in my BSD kernel by adding "options > EXT2FS" and recompiling. This allowed me to mount my newly created hurd > partition (mount -t ext2fs /dev/whatever /gnu). I then downloaded the > hurd tarball from within FreeBSD, and moved it to the hurd partition, > where I then un-tarred it. This created another gnu directory, so I had > /gnu/gnu/*. What I did to fix that was "cd /gnu/gnu", then "mv * > ..". Now I had /gnu/*, which is what I wanted. > I then booted with grub, and followed the directions from the link on the > hurd website on how to get it going in single user mode. From there, I > ran the native install script. > And that's it.
