On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Francesco Di Filippo wrote:
Thank you for your reply
the 'Easy Guide' link is broken
Oh fsck. Some more brokeness with Selwyn's networking me thinks. I suggest
using the copy on gnu.org first.
Matthew
Hi all,
Sorry about the mail loop over the weekend. I've fixed it now. If
you sent me anything, pls resend it :-(
Thanks,
Matthew
Hi all,
Some time ago Roland announced this feature. Has anyone made this
work, and if so, can they give me some instructions to put in the Easy
Guide? I've not got enough spare disk space to try...
Matthew
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Pablo Baena wrote:
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 01:32:12AM +0200, David Lázaro wrote:
I remmeber reading something about deprecating GNU Mach in the future.
Is this true? Could somebody give a hint about what the next official
microkernel will be?
As far as I know,
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, inf wrote:
the link to the easy guide on
http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/getting-help.html#Installation has been
broken for 2 or 3 days now.. does anyone else think this might be bad for
business?
Argh! I've been having problems with www.pick.ucam.org for too long now
Now I set up the translators. If you get Operation not supported
errors, you have forgotten to set the file system owner to \hurd\!
And this is obviously the case here, but I have no clue what it means to set
the file system owner to anything. Nothing like that is expained in the
one
On 27 Aug 1999, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote:
Marcus Brinkmann writes:
MB On Tue, Aug 10, 1999 at 04:50:28PM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG
MB wrote:
So the old instructions (which are the ones the web site points
to) says to look it
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus for
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Michael Bacarella wrote:
The point is that there has been considerable research done since Rashid
left for Microsoft, particularly with L4 at Dresden University, concerning
microkernel performance, thereby showing up more clearly some of the
advantages and
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Pontus Lidman wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Matthew Vernon wrote:
On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Michael Bacarella wrote:
[snip]
Not to imply that just because something is written in assembler means
that it's always smaller and faster, but, it's written entirely
Marcus == Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
(this is a laptop)
Marcus Mmmh... I don't have much experience with laptops. Does
Marcus anybody think this could cause problems at this early
Marcus stage? (I mean, at least it should boot, shoudn't it?)
Hmm - something
Marcus Brinkmann writes:
That applies only to a VERY old tar ball (gnu-19990104). The easy guide
definitely needs an update. Matthew, are you around?
Yep. I'm having trouble keeping up with all the mailing list traffic
now; Can corrections to the easy guide contain Easy Guide somewhere in
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Matthew, please update the Easy Guide to mention this image instead,
as it will solve the serverboot and GRUB ext2fs problems people have
encountered.
The official version is corrected (and has been for some time). Until
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gives me a new password, I can't update the version
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cowboy)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HURD - sorry to bother you.
Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 16:23:55 -0500 (EST)
Your Easy Guide is truly excelent.
I'm trying to install your tarball on hs3s0 which is in linux
/dev/sda1
and if
Diot T. Heck writes:
http://www.pick.ucam.org/~mcv21/hurd.html
the easy guide is down. i guess matthew needs to fix this...
'tis back up again - my webserver died whilst I was on retreat :(.
Note to all - I'm going down for Easter now, so have left the mailing
lists for about 4 weeks
c) It's now properly compliant HTML too :)
A few quickies though:
a)Why don't gnu.org use ssh? it's much easier for the users
b)Marcus - can you refer to me as matthew vernon on the debian.org
page, rather than m.c. vernon? ta
c)Marcus - I still can't get at your autobuilder's page :(
Matthew
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes:
However, version 2 of the SSH protocol doesn't use RSA, and there is
at least one free implementation, namely LSH. Moreover, one month ago
Is anyone working on a .deb yet, do you know?
Matthew
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True.
Jeff Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ladies, Gentleman, Trannies, and anyone who happens to care:
I have been slowly (quite slowly, actually) throwing together some useful
information on http://hurddocs.org/ - It has hit a point where it should
be useful for the average beginner, and
Nathan Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
snip corrections
Thanks for those - I'm away shortly, but I'll try and deal with those
when I get back
One thing that I think would be nice to link off of the Easy Guide
is a walkthrough like what OpenBSD has on their page. It's just
a script of the
The -O none is only necessary if you are either using an old hurd or an
old grub, neither you should. It's worth pointing it out and explaining the
situation, so people can decide if they need to use -O none or not.
I'm away on holiday after today, so I'll do such things when I get
back
root writes:
Hi Mr. Vernon,
I would like to know if someone is actually working on a french
translation of
this document: The easy guide to installing Hurd on a Linux box.
Not that I'm aware of. I've Cc'd this to the debian-hurd mailing list,
so if anyone there is working on one,
Juli-Manel Merino Vidal [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The original sources of it are in html or maybe in texinfo, latex or
something else ?
Plain ol' HTML, [EMAIL PROTECTED] afraid. I'm due to be online home by the end
of
the week, at which point, I need to do some updating...
Matthew
hardware
Marcus Brinkmann writes:
On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 02:24:19AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
This needs to be fixed, but in the meanwhile: stay away.
And please put in the easy guide:
mke2fs -O sparse_super -o hurd /dev/xxx
I have done this (thanks for the Cc Marcus). My home
Neal H Walfield writes:
Hi All,
I have developed a new install guide as the easy guide has become
quite out of date. This one was written in the texinfo format so it is
Hm. I've been working on some updates - do you want to check the
current version and see how in-date it is? I think
Julio Merino writes:
On Thu, Sep 14, 2000 at 10:32:17AM +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
Sure. But the official documentation system of GNU is texinfo, I think.
Indeed. But I don't know that, and learning it is kindof a low
priority. I will change to texinfo at some point, but unless someone
Phil wrote:
A text version would be useful for the installation CD.
That shouldn't be too hard - do you have a timescale for when you'd
want it by?
Matthew
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Julio Merino writes:
When you have a texinfo file you can then convert it to html, ascii
text or whatever you want.
I know this. I'll RTFInfo.
Take a look at the grub info file. Mainly you have to do this:
snip thanks for that.
I'll look at both these issues when I'm back from being at
Philip Charles writes:
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
Phil wrote:
A text version would be useful for the installation CD.
That shouldn't be too hard - do you have a timescale for when you'd
want it by?
I am hoping to have another version of the CD out next
Hi folks,
For some time now, I've had very little feedback about the
Easy Guide. Is this because a) no-one uses it any more, b) it's
perfect or c) feedback is being provided where I dont' read it?
Thanks,
Matthew
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True. I just wish
Hi,
Debconf's dependancies are screwed ATM, which makes installing this
rather tricky (since half the world depends on it these days):
Package: debconf
Version: 0.9.71
Pre-Depends: perl-base (= 5.6.1-4)
Package: perl-base
Version: 5.6.1-3
This strikes me as pretty bad behaviour really. Shurley
Hi folks,
I've made the changes suggested herein, and having got a friend
to do a HURD install using the Easy Guide, made some other
alterations. We'll try X in a few days ;)
The link to http://f77.nop.or.jp/doc/XFree86-3.3.3.1.html#theTable (in
neil's guide, the X seciont) seems not to
Philip Charles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
Matthew Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Debconf's dependancies are screwed ATM, which makes installing this
rather tricky (since half the world depends on it these days):
hurd-i386 is one of four
Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I've recompiled openssh with my hurd patch, this time with PAM, and
ssh-askpass-gnome enabled. The resulting source and binaries are at
URL:http://pluto.tuwien.ac.at/~robbe/debian/hurd/
(*hurd2* is current).
For reference, the NMU I did of
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Now i have a working setup with xserver and windowmanager.
But the ctrl charaters are not handled as expected.
If i do a cat fiel and hit ctrl-d than it works.
But if i do a ping host and then hit ctrl-c nothing happens.
same for cat file.
Robert Bihlmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Patch for 1+3 is in BTS.
Applied, and uploaded (along with some more fixes) :)
Thanks,
Matthew
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Neal H Walfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Getting Started
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The most up to date installation guide is available at:
http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/
Neal: I know you don't like my Easy Guide, and prefer your own
installation guide, but many
Holger Levsen writes:
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2018 at 06:01:43AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> > Has policy changed regarding support for multiple inits, or is it just that
>> > no one is maintaining the shim and sysvinit-core?
>>
>> The latter. systemd-shim has been orphaned for over 2 years, and
Hi,
I mentioned this on debian-devel already in the thread about Buster
maybe losing sysvinit support, but I thought it was worth flagging to
the HURD/BSD lists since it seems relevant to your interests :-)
There's a couple of posts in the archive of where the elogind for buster
work is:
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