Hi John, The installation guide linked from http://hurd.gnu.org has information about setting up ethernet.
http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html After that I recommend you use the APT method in dselect. Use the following three lines as an /etc/apt/sources.list: deb ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian-libio unstable main deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main Good luck, -- -- Grant Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020513 13:14]: > After several years delay, I have ventured into Hurd country. > > Starting with the H2 disks images, I have > -- cross installed a hurd using a baseHurd.tgz > -- set up Grub, and rebooted into the Hurd > -- run initial-install, rebooted, and run initial-install again > -- copied the hurd-H2-CD1.iso into a hard disk partition, and mounted it > with a > settrans /cdrom /hurd/isofs -r /dev/hd0s3 > > so far all is good. Then I boot up into non-single user mode, > and start dselect > Choose Access > Choose from an already Mounted partition > then dselect asks: > > >> In order to make it easy for me to find the relevant files I'd > >> ideally like to install from a straightforward copy of the Debian > >> distribution. To use this I'll need to know where the top level of > >> that copy of the distribution is (eg. 'debian/dists/stable') - this > >> directory usually contains the Packages-Master file. > > >> If you do not have a straightforward copy of the distribution available > >> just answer `none' and we'll go through the parts I need individually. > >> Distribution top level ? [none] > > To which I answer > /cd1-iso/debian/dists/stable > > So dselect observes: > > >> `/cd1-iso/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-hurd-i386' does not > >> contain any *.deb packages. Hmmpf. > > which is true, but confuses me. > /cd1-iso/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-hurd-i386 does exist, and includes > a Packages.gz, which then points to .deb files like > pool/main/a/adduser/adduser_3.43_all.deb > which exist also. > > I have played various tunes with answers to the subsequent questions, > but without success. Ultimately dselect gives me a list of packages to > choose from, but they are packages installed by the original baseHurd.tgz. > > So my questions are: > > 1. Should I be able to use dselect to install compilers and other > useful things? Have I got a wrong dselect? > > 2. Can anyone offer a hint on the next step forward? My hurd is yet to speak > Ethernet, so cannot yet be pointed directly at Ftp sites. > > I admit to being a very new to the whole debian world, though have > been a modest user of Linux for several years. > > Thanks, > John > > John Smith > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
