disklabels and slices

2000-10-06 Thread R Joseph Wright
I've been going over all the FAQs and documents that I can find regarding the Hurd, and have found that Hurd uses a BSD style disklabel. I love this feature, but I want to know how to use it. For example, under FreeBSD, you can create a slice (dos partition) and then within it you can divide it

Re: GNU GRUB 0.5.96 - FINAL TEST RELEASE

2000-10-06 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
Bryan Walton wrote: > > Well, > I downloaded the floppy image for grub 0.5.96, but when I try to > install it into the MBR, I get an error message complaining of a mismatch in > stage1/stage2. Any ideas? mismatch means you are not telling grub either where 2 install or the address stag

Re: GNU GRUB 0.5.96 - FINAL TEST RELEASE

2000-10-06 Thread Bryan Walton
Well, I downloaded the floppy image for grub 0.5.96, but when I try to install it into the MBR, I get an error message complaining of a mismatch in stage1/stage2. Any ideas? Thanks, Bryan Walton On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 08:50:06AM -0600, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > I'm pleased to announ

Re: howto make devices in the /dev dir

2000-10-06 Thread Moritz Schulte
Jerôme Magnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I wish I knew how to create devices for my HDD and my different > partitions ... so I could declare a device for my swap partition ... That's the job of /dev/MAKEDEV. > I was able to declare the cdrom, but I m afraid of breaking my other > system which

ODP: howto make devices in the /dev dir

2000-10-06 Thread Mariusz . Przygodzki
>I wish I knew how to create devices for my HDD and my different >partitions ... so I could declare a device for my swap partition ... >I was able to declare the cdrom, but I m afraid of breaking my other >system which is on the same HDD, while declaring the devices for this >HDD >for info: my HDD

Re: someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-06 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:53:29PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > > Here is what you need: > > Current CVS Hurd, at least the pfinet directory. > > The patch from > > http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de/files/pfinet-tun-20001005.diff.gz > > You should go ahead and check your code in, Marcus. Done. T

howto make devices in the /dev dir

2000-10-06 Thread Jerôme Magnin
I wish I knew how to create devices for my HDD and my different partitions ... so I could declare a device for my swap partition ... I was able to declare the cdrom, but I m afraid of breaking my other system which is on the same HDD, while declaring the devices for this HDD for info: my HDD is an

GNU GRUB 0.5.96 - FINAL TEST RELEASE

2000-10-06 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
I'm pleased to announce release 0.5.96 of GNU GRUB, which is the *final* test release of GRUB. The next release will be GRUB 1.0, so we appreciate you testing 0.5.96 to help us make 1.0 stable. You can get 0.5.96 from: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/ Also available in that directory is `grub-0.5.9

Re: boot-floppies 2.2.17 req'd packages

2000-10-06 Thread Christian T. Steigies
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 07:36:30PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote: > > Here's the list of pkgs from potato-porposed-updates which I used for > boot-floppies 2.2.17: > > base-config_0.33_i386.deb > debconf-tiny_0.2.80.17_all.deb > libc6_2.1.3-13_i386.deb > locales_2.1.3-13_i386.deb > makedev