Thanks for this Michael, On Wednesday 21 November 2007 15:17, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:43:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > This has turned out to be a tidy image and should not give any > > problems. > > I tested it now on qemu and I found three minor issue: > > 1. In the installer, the Hurd ext2 partitions are not created with -b > 4096, so partitions smaller than around 500 MB will panic on first > boot.
I will have a fiddle with this. > 2. There is a /usr->. symlink, not a real /usr. There was a debate about this a while back. To sysmlink or not to symlink. So 1. Should there be a symlink or not? 2. Should usr directories sit on / or /usr/ (as in Linux)? > > 3. If the user does not add "-s" to the grub kernel line for the > second reboot (before running native-install a second time), the > /dev/tty1 passive translator does not get and a subsequent reboot into > multi-user mode will fail with an ipc error. I suggest to just add > tty1 to the list of devices to create during the first > native-install. > > The reason for 3. is that on second reboot, /libexec/runsystem will be > run if you don't use "-s", which touches /dev/tty1 for some obscure > reason (I introduced that myself some time ago) and then later on when > the /dev/tty[1-6] devices get created by the hurd package, /dev/tty1 is > not touched as it exists already. > > Note that we had quite a few people having issues with 3 for K14 > already. so adding the work-around of creating tty1 in native-install > seems worth it to me. Ah, these people that don't use my grub floppy or cdrom ;) Single user has the -s option. Okay will fix. I will quietly work on the revisions and let everyone how I get on. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818 Fax +64 3 488 2875 Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
