Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 12:34:22PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 04:04:04AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > Some minimal ones: > > > > * boot-floppies, some way of installing the system in an > > automated, fairly standard way that doesn't require hacking around > > debian-boot discusses the new setup, Glenn McGrath was succesfully compiling > busybox. This will require more work, I can't even guess how much because I > didn't put my nose into boot-floppies at all yet. >
>From what i know, the biggest problem with a native hurd installer is partitioning. The boot-floppies currently and most likely for woody also uses libfdisk, its a small (20K) partitioning program. (see http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/utilities/libfdisk/ ) I will have a go at getting libfdisk working in a few weeks, no doubt i will be reporting problems to -hurd. Glenn
