It is tricky. Hurd has dselect of course, but not all of the options seem to work. If you have ethernet then that is your best option for installing once you get bootstrapped.
Somehow I read the easy guide and also the Debian Hurd FAQ's on the translators. One of the FAQ's will cover how to set up your ethernet. Amazingly I get better performance through my cable modem with Hurd than I do with Linux 2.4.3 for some yet to be understood reason. Hurd hard drive access is slooowww... You will think you have an ancient IBM PC with a 10M Seagate ST225 :-) Take some time and get GRUB working first. Then you can boot any OS on any partition. I use GRUB to multiboot between Linux, Hurd, and Windoze with no problems, and I can help you set it up if you send me a linux style list of your partitions and which ones are to be bootable for what OS. Don't be in a big rush, it took me about a month of screwing with Hurd to really get it working good. It takes time to learn the new ways of doing things required to set it up. Here is a link to a very useful page that will explain how to set up various translators: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-doc-server Cheers, - Doug Roberto Sobachi wrote: > I've downloaded Debian GNU/Hurd. > The installation is equal the installation of Debian Gnu/Linux 2.2r2? > What's the difference?