Yes Philip. I know. The images you write of are precisely the images I used to install as much of the Hurd as I have done so far.
The point I was trying to make is that there are no drivers disks (drivers-[1-4].bin), so the GNU/Linux 'installer' cannot do any networking either - it can't load the drivers for any network cards either - hence not networking there either. (If I'd had the drivers, and if the installer knew of the option, I wouldn't have had to write the 11 disks required to transfer baseHurd.tgz - I could have just said "they're available through NFS at the following address ...", or "collect the necessary files by FTP/HTTP from the following address ...", or something like this. This has long been a feature of the Debian Linux installer). Regards, Dave McDonald Philip Charles wrote: > > As much as I hate to loose a potential sale of CDs ..... > > The floppy images for a base install are on the CD. 16 images in all. > ../current/images-144/ rescue*, root*, base14* > > Phil. > > On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Dave McDonald wrote: > > > Neal H Walfield wrote: > > > # settrans -acp /f3-main /hurd/isofs $HOME/images/f3-main.iso > > > > Well ... I'd love to. But then I'd have to get the images onto the Hurd > > machine ... but then I don't have networking. Catch-22 I think. What do > > you propose? I guess I could establish a serial connection - but what > > file tranfer software would I run ... or then again there's floppies > > (but I'm a cheapskate - I think I'd rather buy the CD's). > > > > I can see that you presume I'm also running another O/S on this machine, > > but this is not the case. > > > > Still, you've got me thinking. I imagine that if I actually boot from a > > Debian Linux rescue/root/drivers disk set, I could get networking > > working, and then I could transfer the files without needing to reserve > > HDD space for another O/S. Kinda attractive to a cheapskate like me - it > > would still be cheaper to get networking happenning with what I > > currently already have. > > > > I guess at this point, I'd suggest to Philip Charles that including a > > couple of extra floppies in the boot floppy set would be fantastic. But > > I think Philip has to balance this with legitimate concerns about the > > size of the images and the number of floppies needed. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Dave McDonald > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > - > Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 > Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
