Hurd installation is not currently something for the atechnical. Perhaps to show people that hurd actually works, a demolinux style CD could be made. The demolinux cd - (see www.demolinux.org) ignores the hard disk, and just runs off CD. A demo CD might contain just hurd, some tools and utils like vi et al, (perhaps gcc as well would be useful - then people could compile using it too), and XFree86 and Mozilla. (and an easy ppp interface like kppp or gnome-ppp).
This is (1) a million times easier than making a easier to install kit like Mandrake GNU/Linux and (2) Removes the problem of changing from LILO to GRUB for many Linux users, and removes even greater impendiments to Win32 users. It would be a bit like that QNX demo disk (except it would be a boot CD not floppy). Jeff Davies.
