----- Original Message ----- From: "Marcus Brinkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Philip Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-hurd mailing list" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2000 8:31 AM Subject: Re: Hurd installation CD
> 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). Perhaps even hold off for a few days on the new tarball to be sure it is quite stable before creating the iso image. > > 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] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
