[EMAIL PROTECTED] (first last) writes: Hi, I will try to help you. I don't know all the answers. > Ok, I am quite a newbie on the HURD, but I have some > experience in Linux, so I find myself limited tried to > > do things "the Linux way". > > I am going to do a "Linux to HURD HOWTO" with all the > silly (and not so silly) differences. Is there > anything > like that already? > > Some of the questions I thought of are: > > Q. I can not find "mount" in my computer, where is > it?A. There is not such a thing, use settrans (link to > > somewhere/more info on its usage). > > Q. How do I switch virtual terminals? > A. ///I do not know the answer to this/// A. for the moment, there is no virtual terminals. Use the program screen
> Q. Where are my device files for the CD and so? > A. Make them (explanation) > > Q. Network card configuration? > A. I don't know yet (I haven't needed yet) A. the driver need to be in the gnumach kernel. For network configuration, you need to use settrans (look at the easy guide). > Q. Where is RPM? > A. There isn't (yet), it uses dpkg. A. The only distrib based on Hurd is Debian/Hurd, so there is RPM packages. It uses deb packages. > Q. Keyboard layout configuration? > A. No idea yet A. I think you need to change a source file in the gnumach source. Some people have done translations. > I tought of a couple more, but I can't remember now. > > Any more suggestions? (and, if possible, answers to > the questions I don't know). > > Do you think I should go on with it? Maybe, you can contrib it for the webpages of the hurd. See the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. > Thanks very much > > Gabriel -- Thomas Poindessous EpX asso GNU/Linux de l'Epita [EMAIL PROTECTED] && http://www.epita.fr/~epx
