As I mentioned last week, I've just been playing around with installing Debian GNU/Hurd. Last night I tried again with just the first iso from the J1 set of CD's. In the process, I noted a few weaknesses in the instructions[1], where more guidance would have been helpful to me, and I assume others like me.
[1] <http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd/> a) I was installing on a machine that already had Grub on it. The Grub boot floppy image is provided on the CD, but it would be nice if the appropriate grub commands were listed in the document as well, so they could be copied into the existing menu.lst file. My principal question was whether I need to boot with the "-s" on the kernel command line during the ./native-install procedures. b) I read elsewhere (??) that the serverboot.gz business was deprecated, but the recommended alternative doesn't seem to work. What is up with that? c) Is it necessary or desirable to get all four iso's or can you just get the base system installed and networking running with the first iso and then sync up from a network server? If the latter, what should go in /etc/apt/sources.list? d) I had tried last week with the first iso of the H4 set, and managed to get networking going pretty easily with /hurd/pfinet, but this time (maybe I've forgotten what I did before) with J1 I don't seem to have DNS name resolution working. There is no /etc/resolv.conf. What should I do? e) Also, advice on getting ssh to work. Thanks for any advice/guidance! -- Russell Senior ``The two chiefs turned to each other. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellison uncorked a flood of horrible profanity, which, translated meant, `This is extremely unusual.' ''
