I see.... I thought the lack of USB support was limited to the installer. Quoting from https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-news.en.html
Debian GNU/Hurd is currently available for the i386 and amd64 architectures with *about 72% of the Debian archive*, and more to come! - 64bit support is now complete, with the same archive coverage as i386 (actually a bit more since some packages are 64b-only) - This 64b support is completely using userland disk drivers from NetBSD thanks to the Rump layer. - We now use xattr by default for recording translators, allowing to bootstrap seamlessly from other OSes, with mmdebstrap for instance - Rust was ported to GNU/Hurd. - *Support for USB disk and CD-ROM was added through Rump* - Packages are now available for SMP support, which is quite working - The console is now using xkb for keyboard layouts, and supports multiboot-provided framebuffer - Various other support were added (acpi, rtc, apic, hpet, ...) - Some documentation improvement was achieved - Various fixes have been included (irqs, nfsv3, libports, pipes corner cases, ...) Stupid me, I thought that support of "USK disk" implied support for USB in general. So, all in all, given from what I have read so far: - booting on physical hardware (i.e. not emulated) is limited to a few Thinkpad models and for anything else "Your Mileage May Vary" (sources do seem to implicate that that probably means "Your Mileage is Probably Nearly Zero") - no sound - no USB - limited support of SATA disks - I am guessing no BlueTooth - limited availability of drivers for network cards (although "most should work") - limited availability of other hardware drivers Are the above observations correct, and if so, what is the state of development? Thanks, Shinichi 2026年1月30日(金) 0:35 João Pedro Malhado <[email protected]>: > Hello Shinichi, > > On Thu, Jan 29, 2026 at 08:14:29PM +0900, Wilfred van Rooijen wrote: > > OK, I will study a bit more and see what I can do. I will probably try to > > install through SystemRescueCD or Ubuntu Live USB. > > I don't understand what you are trying to do. You already booted the right > installer image, and noted that you could not use a USB keyboard. > There are other ways to install Debian GNU/Hurd on hardware (for example > crossinstall) but that will not change the fact that the USB keyboard > still does > not work. > > Regards, > João >
