> First, I installed Hurd using the tarball and then tried to update it - > that didn't work, but I couldn't figure out why.
No error messages? > 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. That should not matter. Again, any error messages? > 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. Hmm, Marcus, can you take a look at this. Thanks, -Neal -- Neal H Walfield University of Massachusetts at Lowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED]
