Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 10 Feb 2001, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Can any hurd porters make a committment to work on woody boot-floppies? > > You may be stuck with me, but I hope not.
Heh. Well, I don't mind. > It will be a week or so before I will be able to look at adapting the > cvs woody version. It should not take too long. The patch will convert > boot-floppies to the HURD, rather than add it as an option. I hope that > this will be OK. > > There are some fundimental issues that will have to be addressed sometime. > The HURD involves a new platform, not a new architecture. When all the > utilities, tools etc are available, then the HURD boot system should be > ported to the HURD. IMHO we should examine the relationship between the > instalation schemes of Debian GNU/Linux and Debian GNU/HURD. > > At present it is possible to build a HURD set of boot-floppies with Linux, > but I have my doubts if we can do it on the HURD platform at the moment. Well, I guess there's a question whether we wanna go for Hurd with boot-floppies or just focus on debian-installer (woody + 1, or perhaps experimental in woody). -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
