If you are installing hurd from a redhat system and using Xwindows you need to add
export PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:$PATH to your path. Perhaps this should be added to your installation web page. Also the the file dpkg-1.6.14_i386.nondebbin.tar.gz does not contain the start-stop-daemon. This causes this error from the cross-install script. ERROR: dpkg did return unusual messages, please investigate: INSTALLATION ABORTED! dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH. 1 expected program(s) not found on PATH.