Russell Senior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
It is all explained in Neal's installation guide. > 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? What does "doesn't seem to work" mean? > 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? You only need the first CD. Use these lines: deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main deb ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian unstable main > 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? Create it. :) > e) Also, advice on getting ssh to work. See the mailing list archive. It has been discussed a while ago. Cheers, GNU/Wolfgang -- Wolfgang J�hrling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> \\ http://stdio.cjb.net/ Debian GNU/Hurd user && Debian GNU/Linux user \\ http://www.gnu.org/ The Hurd Hacking Guide: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/ ["We're way ahead of you here. The Hurd has always been on the ] [ cutting edge of not being good for anything." -- Roland McGrath ]
