On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 11:34:14AM -0400, David Denny wrote:
> I guess I have to do a make or something... I can find my way around
> installing Hurd, having followed Matthew Vernon's instructions-- got Grub
> working, got a partition shared between Linux and Hurd, done some light
> cd/pwd/ls-ing and text editing so all well.. but some commands do not work.
> at the bash prompt, e.g. type info and it comes back with command not found.
> So I suspect I have to create and catalog some binaries. How?
You should install further packages, like info, via the net.
You can get them from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-hurd-i386
or with dselect (use the FTP access method and the unstable/main
distribution). dselect offers a list of packages, and takes care of
dependencies.
Install singular packages with "dpkg -i filename.deb"
> Incidentally I used the most recent tarball to get the whole Hurd in place.
> I have only done a couple of makdevs ie for /dev/hd0s14 (shared gnu+linux)
> and /dev/hd0s11 /gnu. Maybe I have to do makedevs for all the linux partns I
> want hurd to see, and for the swapfile?
Yes, please. The installation only creates one for the root fs. Maybe we
should generate a standard set like Linux.
> Anyway the main question is do I need to do a make, make install and if so
> how? (I do have a couple of *nix books so not too much detail needed, but
> any pointers welcomed very much)
We try to provide you with a binary distribution for convenient
installation, so you don't need to compile everything yourself (unless your
name is Jeff Bailey :). If there's something you can't find in the archive,
let us know.
Thanks,
Marcus
