* Daniel Burrows writes: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 05:22:09PM +0100, Jeroen Dekkers > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 08:27:26AM -0500, Daniel Burrows wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Robert Millan >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Please consider >> migrating to the free alternatives, Plex86 is > > still being >> adapted to the Hurd but Bochs is known to > > run GNU/Hurd without >> problem. >> > >> > OTOH, Bochs and Plex86 don't support network cards yet (although >> I > hear that bochs will soon), which makes installation a bit of a >> > nuisance. >> >> You can just install things in the disk image. Also bochs and >> plex86 give you the freedom to add everything you like, network >> cards and more.
> And how do you get things into the disk image? Last I checked, > this required either complex hackery to mount it as a block device, > or burning a CD-ROM of the data. If you would have read the mailing list archives (this applies to everyone) then you would have know that I and including someone else (forgot the name of that person) have posted a small guide [1] on the subject, and there is no "complex hackery" involved. As all recent distributions of GNU/Linux can mount loop back devices. [1] ftp://ftp.walfield.org:/pub/people/ams/hurd/creating_bochs_image_for_gnu.txt -- Alfred M. Szmidt
