>>>>> "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang J�hrling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wolfgang> Russell Senior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Russell> a) I was installing on a machine that already had Grub on it. Russell> The Grub boot floppy image is provided on the CD, but it Russell> would be nice if the appropriate grub commands were listed in Russell> the document as well, so they could be copied into the Russell> existing menu.lst file. My principal question was whether I Russell> need to boot with the "-s" on the kernel command line during Russell> the ./native-install procedures. Wolfgang> It is all explained in Neal's installation guide. Not obviously in the context of the J1 CD install, which apparently does a lot of what is explained in Neal's instructions under the covers. For example, I never downloaded gnu-latest.tar.gz as described in Neal's "4. Cross-Install". Just from this Hurd newbie's point of view, it is hard to keep track of what is relevant. Russell> b) I read elsewhere (??) that the serverboot.gz business was Russell> deprecated, but the recommended alternative doesn't seem to Russell> work. What is up with that? Wolfgang> What does "doesn't seem to work" mean? Hmm. Looks like I was missing some of the stuff from the "module /hurd/ext2fs.static" line. Not sure where I got what I had before, but the lines from Neal's instructions worked. Thank you for cattle-prodding me in the right direction (shock and all). Russell> c) Is it necessary or desirable to get all four iso's or can Russell> you just get the base system installed and networking running Russell> with the first iso and then sync up from a network server? Russell> If the latter, what should go in /etc/apt/sources.list? Wolfgang> You only need the first CD. Use these lines: Wolfgang> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main Wolfgang> deb ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian unstable main Ah, thank you. Russell> d) I had tried last week with the first iso of the H4 set, Russell> and managed to get networking going pretty easily with Russell> /hurd/pfinet, but this time (maybe I've forgotten what I did Russell> before) with J1 I don't seem to have DNS name resolution Russell> working. There is no /etc/resolv.conf. What should I do? Wolfgang> Create it. :) Hey, that worked too! ;-) I wonder where it came from the first time. Russell> e) Also, advice on getting ssh to work. Wolfgang> See the mailing list archive. It has been discussed a while Wolfgang> ago. I'll look. -- 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.' ''
