Just wanted to share a few things I noticed about the "Easy Install" doc. Some of them are not strictly related to Debian, but I'm too lazy to write two emails. ;)
BTW, I'm using the deb install not the tarballs. In "Second - Make a partition": >mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hdb1 Should be "mke2fs -O none -o hurd /dev/hdb1". The ext2 problem has been discussed on this list before, but the docs have not been updated In "Fifth - The single-user boot": > kernel=/boot/gnumach root=hd1s1 -s and > module=/boot/serverboot I had to append a ".gz" to the end of gnumach and serverboot. Also, native-install reported error messages when installing quite a few of the debs. I don't remember reading about this being a problem, but I have to admit that I have not had the time to follow the list that closely as of late. In "Sixth - Make devices, and more configuration" It appears as tho native-install also kicks off a script to do the MAKEDEVs. I don't know if I have to explicitly issue some more MAKEDEV's for my drives or not. The docs could be a little more clear in regards to this step. Lastly, I got impatient during the install and before doing the series of settrans commands to setup the network I tried to "ping 192.168.2.1". I then had to reboot because ping was repeatedly reporting "Network unreachable" errors and Ctrl-C would not kill the ping thus I lost control of my shell. Ctrl-Alt-Del would not work for reboot, but perhaps the Hurd does not have that feature. 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 stdout during the install, but it helps a newbie get an idea of what is "normal" looking and what is not. Anyway...that's my quick flyby. Here's to the weekend getting here quickly so I can maybe get started hacking. :) -- --- Nathan Valentine - [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Kentucky Distributed Computing Systems Lab AIM: NRVesKY ICQ: 39023424
