Re: cross-install script...

2000-07-20 Thread Jeff Bailey 

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:07:19PM +0200, Li0 wrote:

 I'm having some troubles with the cross-install script, apparently due
 to some dpkg problems. But as i'm not a Debian user (a slackware one),
 i'm not used to that king of dpkg error messages...
 The script says :
   dpkg did return unusual messages
   dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH .
 
 I don't know what this 'daemon' is, so if someone could help me... ;)

The quickest path to success is to download Marcus' tarball as sited in 
the Easy Guide.  I don't have the URL memorized, sorry - Try looking 
hrough the archives, it's mentioned often.

This requires nothign other than fdisk, mke2fs, mount, tar and grub to get 
your hurd system running.

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Re: cross-install script...

2000-07-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann 

On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 03:07:19PM +0200, Lé0 wrote:
 Hi !
 
 I'm having some troubles with the cross-install script, apparently due
 to some dpkg problems. But as i'm not a Debian user (a slackware one),
 i'm not used to that king of dpkg error messages...
 The script says :
   dpkg did return unusual messages
   dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH .
 
 I don't know what this 'daemon' is, so if someone could help me... ;)

Well, start-stop-daemon is included in the dpkg package, but I'd guess that
you are not running cross-install as root. UNfrotunately this is necessary
for dpkg. It might help to add /sbin and /usr/sbin to your path, but it is
more likely that you need to run fakeroot (or libtricks). There is an option
to dpkg to ignore the user id, but the PATH must be correct.

The simplest work around is to run cross install as root.

Thanks,
Marcus

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