On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Matthew Vernon wrote: > 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 quite out of date.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 it's pretty > current, but I get very little feedback about the easy guide, which > makes this hard. > > > also a bit more portable. > > I don't know of anyone without an HTML reader... > > I've read your instructions, and I think they're probably less helpful > for the novice user - in writing the easy guide, I tried to exaplain > everything on a need to know basis - people installing the hurd for > the first time aren't going to want to bother compiling their own GRUB > image, I'd have thought. > > gnu.org have just been moving their servers around, so I've not > updated teh gnu.org version. Hopefully they'll be installing OpenSSH > RSN, which will make my life much easier for updating the gnu.org > version. > > In the mean time, my own personal hurd box has been converted into my > radiolan router, so I'm looking for a new machine to play with hurd on > (I presume use of VMWare of hurd development is still deprecated, and > freemware is unusable). > > Do people think the Easy Guide is worthwhile? I get very little but > complaints about it. > > Regards, > > Matthew > > -- > Rapun.sel - outermost outpost of the Pick Empire > http://www.pick.ucam.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I found the Easy Guide to be very good and informative. It helped me get the HURD installed. The only problem I had with it was the link to the GRUB image was broken, but I just did some digging around on alpha.gnu.org and I figured out where to get it. Dan -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel E. Baumann E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (caution: dynamic DNS) Web location: http://www.msoe.edu/~baumannd http://www.linuxfreak.com/~baumannd "Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the source code." -- Dave Olson --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]