What kind of hardware do you have? --- Jaap Karssenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm a newbie trying to install the hurd, i read the install guide and the > mail > archives of the last months and I have the idea that i understand them. > > My general problem is that the native-install script hangs at a certain > point, > it gives no error message and it really hangs (i let it alone for a night and > > in the morning it was the same). The first time I run it it hangs at the > lines: " > settrans ttypo /hurd/term /dev/ttypo > pty-slave /dev/ptypo > settrans -cg ptypp " > I tried several releases and both the old (serverboot.gz) and new (module > /hurd/ext2fs.static ...) boot sequence. Still the problem is very consequent. > > When i reboot and run the script again -just being stubborn- it starts > installing packages but most of the time hangs at the ext2 progs package. > > At this moment i use the 20020523 tarbal on a 500 mb partition. There occurs > one error at boot time saying that ext2fs.static encountered a bad block or > something of the like, but this does not seem to bug the system (root is > mounted correctly etc). > Also i looked into the irq's and according to my redhat install there is one > shared irq between usb and the mother bord chipset. Though i reckon hurd > wouldn't boot at all if this was a problem - also i dont use any usb devices. > > I would be very happy if someone could hint me towards a sollution, > > Jaap Karssenberg > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
===== James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone referring to this as 'Open Source' shall be eaten by a GNU __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! - Official partner of 2002 FIFA World Cup http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

