Hi, I've done another GNU/Hurd installation using the xattr Linux patch (still using the older http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/xattr-hurd/kernel-patch-xattr-hurd_20040302-4_all.deb , not the more recent http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/xattr-hurd/kernel-patch-xattr-hurd_20040302-5_all.deb ), and the base tarball from http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/xattr-hurd/gnu-20040917.tar.bz2 .
Compared to my previous installation with the older http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/xattr-hurd/gnu-20040731.tar.bz2 , described in my previous mail, all known issues were fixed, i.e. I didn't have to fix permissions on /libexec/rc manually, and the devices nodes for harddisk partitions were also set up correctly. So after unpacking the tarball, I only had to adjust /gnu/etc/fstab to my needs, and had a ready working Hurd installation :-) BTW, in my previous report, I had a little bug: The command to extract the tarball with star needs to include the -xattr option, as stated in Michaels original mail. (The artype=exustar option mentioned there isn't necessary however -- at least with star 1.5a51 which I was using.) -Olaf-
