On 2004-09-10, 15:36, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > This works, thanks! Theproblem I have is that when I login, I get a > "login: chown: /dev/com0: Operation not permitted" message. I also > got a "login: Timed out after 5 minutes.", (I were writing on the > console at the time). > > Sounds as if login isn't suid root; a known bug in the Hurd package. > Just make it suid root and the message should go away.
> By the way: I used Michael Bancks new installation method, and it > worked without any major problems when I figured out the harddisk > naming scheme.~ > > You mean crosshurd? That is Jeff Bailey's work, not Michael's... If > you don't mean crosshurd, then I'm not familiar with this new method. > Would you like to explain it to me? It's the "xattr-hurd" or whatever it is called, it's described in http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2004/08/msg00006.html // Simon
