Well, the install from tarball went fairly smoothly. Here are a few notes from my experience today.
- native_install did not add root to group root, so a lot of things got installed as root.1005
- If you don't have a floppy drive, then /dev/fd causes a lot of programs to segfault, and it is impossible to delete the node unless one reboots to linux or somesuch.
- If you have a PS/2 mouse, you must first "touch /dev/mouse" before you can settrans it.
- Lots of dependency problems in the initial dselect upgrade, especially concerning "makedev", "console-tools", and "netbase", this was easy to straighten out, but would probably be confusing for a newbie.
Otherwise, I got the job done in a couple hours. No problem getting ethernet going, etc. Now I'm back to tinkering with oskit-mach, from my first test runs of the SMP enabled kernels, they hang right after the "Welcome to Gnumach-1.2 OSKit"
I've got my hi-tech hp9000 serial hurd debugging system working so I'll see if I can trace it to where the hangup is.
Later! - Doug
Neal H Walfield wrote:
BTW, I discovered that "cp -a * /mnt" did not do a very nice job of duplicating Hurd on another partition. It messed up all the device files. I decided to reinstall from the tarball to give me a nice clean environment and test it out as well.
cp does not (yet) copy the Hurd attributes (e.g. the passive translator settings).
