Re: Installation CD

2000-09-28 Thread Steve Bowman
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 04:22:35AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > This is also quite out-of-dated. Use the latest. > > > > Which is grub-boot-0.5.95.image > > > > Wow, I am becoming blind (I *did* try to check). > > > Is there a floppy imag

Re: Installation CD

2000-09-28 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > This is also quite out-of-dated. Use the latest. > > Which is grub-boot-0.5.95.image > > Wow, I am becoming blind (I *did* try to check). > Is there a floppy image of this somewhere? I have not been able to locate one. Surfing when the modem

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Steve Bowman
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:48:59PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:30:00AM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > >> I just upgraded to gnumach 1.2-6 and this behaviour still occurs. > > >> Is anyone else seeing this kind of instability? > > > > > >I am; the command

Re: instalation from redhat

2000-09-28 Thread kiwi
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-daemo

Re: Installation CD

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 09:53:11AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Installation CD > Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:33:11 +0200 > > > alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-boot-0.5.93.1.image > > This is also quite out-of-dated. Use the latest. Which

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread James Franklin
http://licensing.qnx.com/ - Original Message - From: "dP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Marcus Brinkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Farid Hajji" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 4:07 PM Subject: Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd > Take a lo

Re: Installation CD

2000-09-28 Thread Philip Charles
On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > Does it exclude uninstallable packages? I am using the exclusion list you sent me. > > Maybe adding the packages from alpha.gnu.org helps? (There's X, and apt) Will do as a separate file system. > If the latest tarball is 2925, that's okay.

Re: Installation CD

2000-09-28 Thread OKUJI Yoshinori
From: Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Installation CD Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2000 02:33:11 +0200 > alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-boot-0.5.93.1.image This is also quite out-of-dated. Use the latest. Okuji

ld error 9

2000-09-28 Thread Me
I've got Gnu Hurd up and running with my ne2000 network card. Anyway, after getting micq to compile, the link exits on error 9, does anybody know what this could mean, or how it could be fixed? James Morrison __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Photos - 35mm

Re: Installation CD

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 12:24:51AM +, Philip Charles wrote: > The Installation CD builds nicely, both versions, non-US and non non-US. Cool. > The images have turned out to be small, 200+ MB. Debian CD is fussy about > what it includes and the exclusion list is quite extensive. Does it exc

Installation CD

2000-09-28 Thread Philip Charles
The Installation CD builds nicely, both versions, non-US and non non-US. My mirror is in a mess at the moment and my modem is fully committed until tomorrow morning so I expect that I will have to wait until Sunday to burn a test CD. The images have turned out to be small, 200+ MB. Debian CD is

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread dP
Take a look at http://www.qnx.com search for 1.44Demo... ( asingle floppy takes you on to the net!!) search for the download area of qnx RTP... it´s a 25MB download, but worth to try... a RTOS in search of development... POSIX standarts... so any linux apps could be easylly ported... and so.

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 11:22:15PM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > > > a.) How to I settrans the term translator to a /dev/ttyS* on one side > > > and have it use gnumach's com driver on the other side? > > > > >From MAKEDEV: > > > > console|tty[0-9][0-9a-f]|tty[0-9a-f]|com[0-9]) > >

Gnome without pthreads... bad idea!

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, I got gnome-core to compile (couple of PATH_MAX issues), but I can't recommend it. panel and gnomecc don't come up at all (or I didn't wait long enough),a nd the help-browser seems to work, but usage is VERY slow and it crashes soon.[1] Beside a couple of bugs, one reason is certainly the lac

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread Farid Hajji
> > a.) How to I settrans the term translator to a /dev/ttyS* on one side > > and have it use gnumach's com driver on the other side? > > >From MAKEDEV: > > console|tty[0-9][0-9a-f]|tty[0-9a-f]|com[0-9]) > st $I root 600 /hurd/term ${DEVDIR}/$I device $I;; > > So, "settrans /de

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 10:30:00AM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > >> I just upgraded to gnumach 1.2-6 and this behaviour still occurs. > >> Is anyone else seeing this kind of instability? > > > >I am; the command failures don't happen to me, but when starting X with a > >non-privileg

Re: Porting FreeBSD's/OpenBSD's User-level ppp(8) to the Hurd

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Jul 24, 2000 at 04:32:20AM +0200, Farid Hajji wrote: > > > 2. If there is no such translator, is there an officially approved or > >preferred way to access native gnumach drivers? Of course, there is > >always the possibility to get the master device port from the PROC > >serve

Re: networking question.

2000-09-28 Thread Neal H Walfield
> settrans -fg /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 > address=10.0.0.5 --gateway=10.0.0.1 --netmask=255.0.0.0 > > when i 'ping 10.0.0.1' i get a socket : translator died > message, and occasionally, when i attempt to ftp a: > 'eth0: media is TP' message. th

networking question.

2000-09-28 Thread ryan.tecco
thanks to all that provided info/scripts on getting sources. i am setting networking up as follows: settrans -fg /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet --interface=eth0 address=10.0.0.5 --gateway=10.0.0.1 --netmask=255.0.0.0 when i 'ping 10.0.0.1' i get

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Steve Bowman
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:29:38PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: >From: "Frederico S. Muñoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:03:29 +0100 > >- Original Message - >From: "Steve Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: >Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:57 AM

Re: How I installed the Hurd on VMware.

2000-09-28 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:10:04AM -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote: > > I was then able to run "dselect", and download lots of Debian packages > from woody, with *almost* no problems -- a few packages failed to > configure, but there were clear messages about lack of memory, so I > plan on increasing t

RE: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Brent Fulgham
> > (2) I tried to make a few debs from source. Here is what happened. > > > > (a) I wanted to compile numeric python and started to compile > > the python-llnl package (which originally was the source). I > > had installed the relevant python packages. I found that, > > the py

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 05:43:09PM +0530, Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > $ mail > N ... > > q > unable to lock mailbox: permission denied. > $ Maybe mail needs partial locking, which is not implemented in the Hurd. Only whole file locking works. You need to check the source for l_len in the F_SET

Re: How I installed the Hurd on VMware.

2000-09-28 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> Eric Hanchrow writes: EH> * grub-boot-0.5.95.image appears to have less-than-useful EH> defaults in the file menu.lst -- "timeout" is set to 0, which EH> means you don't get to see the boot menu This was caused by the changing semantics of `timeout' (0 used to mean wait forever, now it m

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 06:04:28PM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > Which reminds me, I forgot to ask. For stuff on ftp.debian.org I suppose > I should report bugs (marked "[Hurd]" perhaps), but what about stuff on > alpha.gnu.org? Do you want bug reports on Debian's BTS or just report > them to t

How I installed the Hurd on VMware.

2000-09-28 Thread Eric Hanchrow
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to vmware.guest.misc as well. http://www.vmware.com>VMware is a nifty (albeit non-free, alas) program that emulates a physical PC in software. It's ideal for messing about with a new operating system, when you don't want

Re: Reinstallation problems

2000-09-28 Thread Julio Merino
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 11:57:23PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 03:12:58PM +0200, Julio Merino wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I had Hurd working fine in a 520 Mb hard-disk and I decided to move it > > to another hard disk. The new hard-disk is about 1,7 GB so I've done a >

Article on GNU Grub in German computer magazine ct

2000-09-28 Thread Zeno Gantner
Hi girls & boys, In the last issue of the German computer magazine "ct", there is a (very long and positive) article about GNU Grub, our favourite boot loader :-). Alas, there is no online article :-( See the table of contents: http://www.heise.de/ct/, or, better, buy the mag! Zeno

Re: source location?

2000-09-28 Thread Farid Hajji
> i am attempting to keep up with all of the new > developments in gnumach/os-kit mach/hurd since i > am making source code changes, but i am getting > overwhelmed looking for the binaries. > > can someone tell me the ftp sites/directories > that contain the m

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
hi, > "Steve" == Steve Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Steve> login as sbowman ps works su works startx fails su now Steve> fails ("Killed") ps now fails ("Killed") Steve> and now many other things seems to be failing, like ping. Steve> ls is one thing that still wor

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: "Frederico S. Muñoz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 11:03:29 +0100 - Original Message - From: "Steve Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:57 AM Subject: Re: Report on X > login as sbowman > ps works > su wor

Re: Report on X

2000-09-28 Thread Frederico S. Muñoz
- Original Message - From: "Steve Bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2000 5:57 AM Subject: Re: Report on X > login as sbowman > ps works > su works > startx fails > su now fails ("Killed") > ps now fails ("Killed") > > and now many other things seems to be fai

instalation from redhat

2000-09-28 Thread kiwi
I installed the hurd from a redhat system. Using the tar.gz file that was given in http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/easy.html It worked ok Then I made a copy of these files /boot/gnumach.gz /boot/server.boot /boot/serverboot.gz Then I installed using the cross install method and the instillation

source location?

2000-09-28 Thread ryan.tecco
i am attempting to keep up with all of the new developments in gnumach/os-kit mach/hurd since i am making source code changes, but i am getting overwhelmed looking for the binaries. can someone tell me the ftp sites/directories that contain the mo