question 1: i downloaded the gnu-latest.tar.gz from ftp:alpha.gnu.org as installation doc recommanded ,but it seems the version is gnumach1.2 not 1.3 as you say ,why?
A small typo before the release was made. It is probobly 1.3 that you are using. question 2: i has D-Link DFE530 not 3cxxx ,and whatever it detected is uncorrect. why? is this the reason ican't settrans the pfinet? when i typed: The compiled GNU Mach kernel you have tries all the cards that it is compiled for, 3c515 is one of those. From the looks your card isn't supported. question 3:when i typed: $df -m it tells me : df:cannot read table of mounted filesystems:No such file or directory Yes, we don't have an /etc/mtab file that some systems have, to check how much space you have left specify the directory (or device) as the last argument, for example: df -m / or df -m /dev/hd0s1 question 4:how to edit the file /etc/fstab so i can mount cdrom? You should use settrans for this, and since the infomation gets stored across boots you don't need to do any more than to start an passive translator. If you'd like more information about translators see the Hurd web page [1]. Something like this should work: settrans -cp /cdrom /hurd/iso9660fs /dev/hd1 [1]: http://hurd.gnu.org
