On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:59:53AM -0300, brunoacf wrote: > Why did you discontinued the default installation software of Hurd in > favour of crosshurd? Now we don't have a real installer anymore. What > are the advantages of this move? I don't know, but it seems to be a > step backwards.
The advantage of this move is that it recognises what has been true for a while. Noone cares enough to keep a tarball up to date. The last tarball update was 11 months ago, and so buggy you couldn't use it to install without assisstance. The tarball was never inteded as a 'real installer'. Philip's CDs fill that role. They are still around and are in need of testers, fixers, and purchasers *g*. When the FSF gets around to fixing their hardware, I might be inclined to setup automated tarball builds. Crosshurd is, for the most part, already setup to do this. Filling a wishlist bug might encourage me to finish adding this feature to crosshurd. > For example, in my machine I don't have apt-get (I have slackware and > FreeBSD). How do I install Hurd now? As I mentioned in the emails, non-Debian users should generally just use the install CDs. Some other folks have made tarballs of crosshurd that apparently work. I have no experience with them, though. Tks, Jeff Bailey -- Breathe into my hands, I'll cup them like a glass to drink from... - Tattle Tale _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
