--- Bas Wijnen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > While installing the GNU/hurd, following Neil's great manual, I > encountered some problems. I solved them, but they should be fixed > anyway, I think :-) > > First of all, mke2fs used a block size of 1024 on my fairly small disk. > This caused many hangups and I couldn't find out why. From > irc://opennet/#hurd I found that this is a known bug in the filesystem > driver. So I guess this is being worked on. In the meantime, I suggest > that it is mentioned in Neil's manual.
I think Neal fixed this. > Second, native-install crashed i on the second pass with the error: > > The last step is to create /etc/fstab > ./native-install: line 191: unexpected EOF while looking for matching ``' > ./native-install: line 207: syntax error: unexpected end of file > > I solved this by changing line 162 in the file. > It started with: > > rootpart=fsysopts / | perl > > while it should start with: > > rootpart=`fsysopts / | perl > Do you mean rootpart=`fsysopts / | perl` ? > I shall now see if the rest of the installation and using the hurd works. > If it doesn't, I'll probably send a message to this list. > > Bye, > Bas Wijnen > It looks like things have worked so far ;) Where is the source for native-install? ===== 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!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
