cross-install, perl package broken?

Hello i tried to install hurd with the cross-install script from a debian 2.2. after cross-install fetched some packages fom ftp.de.debian.org it crashes with this error: - /data/hurdfiles/partial/libncurses4_4.2-3.4.deb Installing optional packages, this may take some time. - /data/hurdfiles/

Re: Install Experiences

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 05:34:46PM -0600, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > 2) I tried the cross-install script using the packages from the CD, no > luck there cross-install needs an update, I will be working on it (promised it for some time, now I will have the time). > 3) I used the tarball filesyst

Install Experiences

I've been looking at the HURD for a long time, and finally I got a machine at work to dive in with. Anyway, here's my experiences. 1) I tried the CD (hurd-D1). I couldn't figure out what to do to boot it. I tried writing the "linux" image to disk, but it just gave me errors when I tried to boo

Another thing about the SCSI CDROM

I just noticed this on bootup, I get a message - scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:02, sector 28, absolute sector 2056348 Not sure if its significant, but it might be. Jon On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Neal H Walfield wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:13:46PM -0600, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > HURD detect

Re: mounting SCSI cdrom

On Thu, 28 Dec 2000, Neal H Walfield wrote: > On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:13:46PM -0600, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > > HURD detected my SCSI cdrom at cd0. How do I go about mounting it? I > > tried > > What is the output of `showtrans /dev/cd0' /hurd/storeio cd0 > > > ./MAKEDEV cd0 > > settr

Re: mounting SCSI cdrom

On Thu, Dec 28, 2000 at 02:13:46PM -0600, Jonathan Bartlett wrote: > HURD detected my SCSI cdrom at cd0. How do I go about mounting it? I > tried What is the output of `showtrans /dev/cd0' > ./MAKEDEV cd0 > settrans -c /cdrom /hurd/isofs /dev/cd0 Try settrans -capfg /cdrom ... and send the o

mounting SCSI cdrom

HURD detected my SCSI cdrom at cd0. How do I go about mounting it? I tried ./MAKEDEV cd0 settrans -c /cdrom /hurd/isofs /dev/cd0 which seemed to work, but cd /cdrom froze the whole thing. I'm trying to get all of the packages from the Hurd D-1 CD, after installing from the gnu-latest tarba