scheme wrote: > I'm trying to install GNU/Hurd from F3 CD-ROM image, but I don't have > cd-r to boot actually from a cd-rom drive. So I have to following the > easy guide to install it.
I'm not sure you followed thecorrect installation instructions supplied by Philip. You really need to follow the instructions at: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd However, I also installed without having the CD's - just the ISO images. I commend to you Neal Walfield's "Installing the Hurd" for information on getting IP + NFS up and running (which should enable you to access the images from another machine over a network connection): ftp://ftp.walfield.org/pub/people/neal/papers/hurd-installation-guide > All goes well until it's time to run ./native-install. After I reboot > the machine and edited the boot menu and actually booted the gnumach.gz > with serverboot.gz in single user mode, the procedure halted with the > following lines at the end of screen: > > hd14: bad access: block=28, count=2, blockend=30, nr_sects2 > end_request: I/O error, dev 03:44, sector 28 > Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs.static[hd1s6] exec I wonder ... did you format the partition as a Hurd partition? Use the installation Rescue and Root floppies to achieve this (no special notes on this - just select the option to initialise a partition). Also I wonder if the partition has some bad sectors - when initialising, choose the option to do a read test of every block. (I think that option is available on the Hurd installation disks - if not, you will have to start a shell (alt-F2 will do) and manually type the appropriate incantation of mkfs.ext2 -c -o "GNU/Hurd" /dev/linux-device-name . If in any doubt, perform a write test with the command "badblocks -swv /dev/linux-device-name number-of-blocks-in-device" to do a more thorough test. Dave McDonald
