Hi, it all began last week, when I decided to check out HURD. Because I couldn't boot from my Harddisk, I asked if anyone had a solution. Marcus Brinkmann kindly game me a script, wich could solve my problems. He told me I had to cross-insstall the HURD first. This procedure didn't sucseed, because the cross-install script told me some packages where missing. The script tried to connect to the internet, but I don't have any Internet- connection at home, so this failed. I tried to remove the missing packages from this script step by step, but - no joy.
Then a friend of mine gave me another 520megs HD. So my harddiskconfiguration now looks like: hda1: 15mb /boot hda2: 500mb /gnu (hurd partition) hdc1: 256mb swap (linux and hurd) hdc2: 40gig / (linux root) So I used the rescue- and root-disk in dists/sid/main/disks-hurd-i386/current/images-1.44 from the Debian GNU/HURD-main-CD. After Installing the HURD base System, the install-script (is this called native-install ?) came back to the step, where I again choose "Install HURD base System". After several loops, I chose "reboot" and put the grub-bootdisk (from install) in my floppy-drive. Boot seemed to work, but then my System hangs with these messages at the end: com=: at atbus0 , port = 3f8 , spl = 6 , pic = 4 (DOS COM1) com1: at atbus1The device below will clobber IRQ3 You have two devices at the same IRQ. This won't work. Reconfigure your hardware and try again. com1: port = 2f8 , spl = 6 , pic = 3 I think this could be a conflikt with my ethernet-card, so I'll try to remove it from my computer. If I can manage my system to boot properly, I'll tell you, if your script worked - even if I didn't need it because of my new hd-drive. Thanks Flo
