All, I wanted to get this email off before I forgot the problems I encountered during installation. I followed Matthew Vernon's installation guide.
* Matthew's guide is excellent, but it needs to be updated to reflect the new --download option to cross-install. I didn't discover it until *after* I'd been through much pain downloading all those packages by hand! * HURD filesystems needed to be created with -O none to avoid making a filesystem with 2.2 enhancements (I think -O none should really be the default when specifying -o...); * I needed to download a new version of GRUB to boot the hurd; I fetched it from alpha.gnu.org; * I needed to remove modules/gconv from the list of optional packages to install in cross-install; * ncurses4 has moved to oldlibs/, the correct ncurses is now libncurses5. These changes also had to be made to cross-install; All of those changes have been on this list before at one time or another, but not in one place, and they're still current issues as far as I know. These last few haven't been reported before, I think: * /usr/info/dir is expected to be present by the postinstall of textutils (among others), unfortunately it does not exist and the /sbin/install-info script fails because of it. The solution is to touch /usr/info/dir, then run /sbin/clean-info. The postinstalls then run correctly. My first attempt at fixing this problem was to touch /usr/info/dir and then run the postinstall, I'm almost certain this somehow caused the machine to lock up. * base-files tries to create /var/mail, but it already exists as a symlink. Removing it and rerunning dpkg --configure works. I think that's all for now. -- ____ \ _/__ ``I need every braincell blazing \X / to fight my invisible enemies!'' \/
