On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 08:12:30AM -0700, Leonardo Pereira wrote: > Why the default console of debian gnu/hurd isn't the > hurd-console, like the Bee GNU/Hurd?
Send patches. However, I seem to remember people telling me Bee just starts up the Hurd console once at bootup and does not bother about respawning. We could probably do that, but it would be nicer to have a respawn mechanism, where you could (for bonus points) edit /etc/default/hurd-console, hit ctrl+alt+backspace to tell the console to detach/reattach and get the new settings. One issue is that /etc/default/hurd-console is pretty sensitive to syntax errors, and just respawning endlessly will make your system unsable in case of problems. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2005/03/msg00078.html for my last attempt, nobody replied to that yet. > there are a Hurd Live-CD, it is now time to think > about a 'L' series of debian gnu/hurd installer that > runs over hurd instead of linux? Those two things are pretty seperate. Yes, we can boot the Hurd from a CD now, but I don't think it would make sense to port boot-floppies to the Hurd, as they are obsolete, deprecated and unmaintained. However, porting any of base-config, debootstrap and debian-installer will get us nearer to a native Debian GNU/Hurd install, with the possible intermediate step of booting d-i from GNU/Linux, cross-debootstrapping hurd-i386 from it and then running base-config after booting into the Hurd. Michael -- Michael Banck Debian Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
