A few days ago I decided that, just to see what its like, I'd install Hurd and poke at it for a bit.
It took me a number of tries to get it to install and I had to work a bunch of magic that didn't seem to be documented in the Hurd installtion guides that I looked at (the one at debian.org, the Easy Guide, and the one at web.walfield.org). So I just want to tell everyone what I think is missing from the doucmentation and possibly take a roasting for missing something really stupid somewhere. First, I installed Hurd using the tarball and then tried to update it - that didn't work, but I couldn't figure out why. So I decided to use cross-install. That didn't work either since I was running the release Debian 2.2, not woody. Once I got woody installed, cross-install went a lot better. The problem I had with cross-install was that a bunch of packages that libc0.2 depended on were not fetched and installed. These are libnss-db libdb2-util. Somehow I think there might be more, but those are the only ones in my notes, so that must be it. Next up were the dependancy problems in native-install. The dpkg line that configures libc0.2 also needs to have libnss-db, libdb2, libdb2-util and hurd on it since these are all dependancies. Libc0.2 doesn't configure without them, and nothing else configures since everything depends on libc0.2. At least, that's my limited understanding of it. This leads to a few errors later on about packages already configured, but eventually leads to a very functional Hurd installation. So did I do the right thing here? Is this a problem with the scripts and docs, or did I stupidly overlook something that was printed somewhere in 20 point bold? Anyways, Hurd is, imho, really cool! I look forward to the day when Debian GNU/Hurd has all the polish that Debian GNU/Linux has! -- Dave Kimmel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 5615049
