Hey everyone :) I just wanted to say hello and to inform you about two young pet projects of mine, an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer and a script to master live cds from existing systems.
I've created one live cd that is able to install a Debian GNU/Hurd system. It can install grub2 and includes all the debian archives necessary to complete the installation. The image is available as an xz-compressed iso image under [0]. You can download it via http or BitTorrent (hopefully). The installer lives in an mercurial repository under [1], there is a local checkout on that server so you can browse the most recent version there. The live cd master script can be found in [2] in the near future. For now I documented my setup in the readme file. Getting the live cd right took quite some time and I remastered the cd on my linux box to save time and now I need to integrate all those little things I changed back into the script and verify that it actually works. Btw, I know about the plan to get the debian-installer running on the Hurd and I don't want compete with it. But it always bugged me that one needed one operating system to install another one and the lessons learned with both the installer and the live cd will greatly benefit debian-installer as well imho. Well, that's it, I'd love to get some feedback and don't spare me some doh! moments ;) Justus 0: http://teythoon.cryptobitch.de/hurd/livecd/ 1: http://teythoon.cryptobitch.de/hurd/hurd-installer/ 2: http://teythoon.cryptobitch.de/hurd/hurd-livecd/
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