On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:17:45PM -0400, Thomas A Langan wrote: > > a) I used it today :) > > b) I am still in the process of installing so I will probably use it some > more this week. I'm having some trouble with hardware compatibility (the > boot disk in marcus' alpha.gnu.org/pub/hurd/contrib folder dies at some > point),
You are not supposed to use it anyway, it is almost two years old. You can find a more recent grub disk in gnu/grub/old at the site, and it is easy to make a recent one with grub yourself. Specify the installed gnumach.gz and serverboot.gz in the filesystem you installed the Hurd in. > partitions. It would be nice to have a section on doing a clean install > of > HURD for those who do not have Linux installed. Is it necessary that I > install Debian? What is The Right Way to install HURD right now if you > don't have any OS installed? There is no self contained installation, although you can boot linux from a floppy and install the big tar file from there. The self contained installation will involve the new debian-installer Marcus >
