Hello everyone This weekend I installed the Hurd using the `tarball' method as described in the user's guide. Well it kind of worked, apart from fsck who couldn't mount / ro, and google told me that I should add a --readonly on the module line in my grub menu.lst, and also that my tarball was too old, and that this fsck problem was fixed now.
Never mind I thought, it's running now. Then I wanted to apt-get some stuff so I set up the network, following the instructions on the user's guide again (thanks for writing it). I ran an apt-get update & apt-get upgrade but this was very unwise, since now when I boot in multiuser mode I can't login as anyone (even root). I know I have an obsolete version of the tarball, so I'd like to install a more up to date version of the Hurd. I know that there are iso images that are more recent, but it's not that easy for me to burn CDs, and also I'd rather download packages when I need them than 3*650MB in one go (although I'll do it if it turns out to be the only solution). So here are my questions: 1. Is there an up to date tarball (the one I got was from ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/gnu-latest.tar.gz -- from memory)? If yes where is it? 2. If I need to download CDs, should I get K2, and can I just download CD1 and then apt-get things, or is it more reliable to get the packages from the CDs? Thanks for your help, and I apologize if my question has been answered before / is irrelevant, but I'm unfamiliar with the Hurd and I don't know my way around at all. -- Arnaud Delobelle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
