On Fri, Mar 12, 1999 at 12:07:44AM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Mar 11, 1999 at 01:27:08PM -0800, Ian Main wrote: > > > > > > and the easy guide has something, too, I think. > > > > The easy guide (at http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/~mcv21/hurd.html) says: > > > > You may make a swap partition too if you wish, or use your Linux one > > (in which case you need to modify your boot scripts, but I have no > > idea which ones to change). > > > > And that's the end of that :) > > > > I would not mind writing text for this if the author is not up to it. > > Eh, wait a minute ;) The last sentence will be pretty much obsolete very > soon (in prior versions, hurd did not honour the special swap markup used by > linux and destroy it, so you'd need to run mkswap again. In the meantime, > Roland did add some sode to the hurd which makes sure that the linux swap > format is not harmed).
Hmm.. and you will make it so there is a default pager in the debian package ? I do beleive this was the problem I was experiencing earlier. I will experiment more tonight to verify. > If you want to write something, this is a good start: > > http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-hurd-9903/msg00022.html > > Roland did well explaining the new format, and if you document it, it is not > lost. okeydoke > > > > Great to hear that it is now working more reliable! Which translator is > > > dying on you? exec or file system? > > > > The ext2fs translator. I tried both ext2.static and plain ext2 (or whatever > > they are exactly called). As soon as I cd into the dir it dies with a > > 'translator > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Which dir? how did you set up the translator? What did you expect to see? > > > died' error message and I'm put back to my previous dir. I'm using settrans > > just like in the easy install doc. > > Well, probably the partition is too big (>1 GB). Aaah, yes, this is the problem ;-) I had forgotten about that. *smacks forehead* DOH! > > Also, is there a /proc translator I should have setup ? I see errors from > > several programs about no /proc. > > No, proc is not supported by Hurd (write an emulation if you can :), but > please report the program which doesn't work. I know of start-stop-daemon. > > Every program which relies on /proc needs to be rewritten if it is > significant to the Hurd. OK. I'll take better notes when I mess around with it tonight :-) If we patch a program, who should we send it to ? Ian
