> On 31 Jul 2002, Russell Senior wrote: > > > > > I am new to playing with Hurd, so please forgive my stupidities. I > > recently installed the hurd-H4-CD1.iso on a PII-400 box with 64 meg of > > RAM. When I try to 'apt-get install emacs21' things start out okay > > but then when installing .el files the box freezes. I apologize, I am > > off-site now and don't have the precise message in front of me. Is > > this a known problem? Suggestions? Thanks! > > > > -- > > Russell Senior ``The two chiefs turned to each other.
I don't believe the box is quite frozen, but there is a problem with the package that is currently in the debian archive for emacs21 on GNU/Hurd. A fixed package was on alpha, but I think that got lost, hopefully emacs21 will get autobuilt soon. ===== 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! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com

