On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 11:39:50AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote: > The Hurd .deb packages from gnu.org will be the default packages available > to dselect. I am proposing to include the Hurd .deb packages from > debian.org as a separate file system. Has anyone got any better ideas?
Uh, gnu.org only contains some unofficial updates, a tetsing field if you want. You can include them, but as I saud, they are only an addition, not a replacement for debian.org. > I am also intending to use the latest tarball and Grub. Are their any > reasons not to do this? Yes. You should wait for the next update, which I will do tomorrow latest (maybe in a couple of hours). There is a bug in gnumach which leads to crashes, and I want streamdev in the Hurd package (for /dev/kmsg, so people can report the boot message). > There is one problem. I not able to create /dev/hd1 and mount the cdrom > onto it. This has to be done after running native-install and before any > other packages are installed. Could someone give me some advice please, > or better still write something I can include in the documentation. After running native-install the second time, you need to reboot. Then: cd /dev ./MAKEDEV hd1 settrans /cdrom /hurd/isofs /dev/hd1 > A number of cosmetic modifications have been made to messages and the > main installation menu, but there are more that can be made. These will > require some serious rewriting so I am not going to break my neck over > them. > > The release date should be the middle of next week. I will doing some > serious negotiation locally to see if I can get the images on a Dunedin NZ > site. I am sorry that the images you sent me are not available yet. It's more difficult for me than expected to get them out of the door. Thanks, Marcus -- `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' Debian http://www.debian.org Check Key server Marcus Brinkmann GNU http://www.gnu.org for public PGP Key [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Key ID 36E7CD09 http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
