sysvinit

2000-10-07 Thread jc
apt-get output: bsdutils: Depends: sysvinit (>= 2.59-2) but it is not installable Is there anything to be done about this? = /* * Come to #hurd on EFnet! I am the only one here!*

Re: is apt working?

2000-10-07 Thread Steve Bowman
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 07:06:16PM -0700, jc wrote: > [snip] > > In sources.list I am using lines like: > deb > ftp://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-hurd-i386/ > > Ugh, well that is supposed to be one line, but this > web based email .. well it sucks. /me to real email

Re: GNU GRUB 0.5.96 - FINAL TEST RELEASE

2000-10-07 Thread Brian May
> "Pankaj" == Pankaj Kaushal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Pankaj> 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? Panka

Re: Location of the large tarball

2000-10-07 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
Pankaj Kaushal wrote: > > hi, > > Where is the large tarball for cross install > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/GNU Hurd/contrib/marcus/gnu-latest.tar.gz > was where i last found it. > it has moved or i am wrong please help. anyway i found it at ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/gnu-latest.tar.gz

Re: First Boot

2000-10-07 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
> GRUB comes up fine. I do: > root=(hd1,0) // It seems that it just ignores > CDrom yes this is right grub only accepts a drive it likes and maybe cdroms are not grub fav. anbody tried bootin a cdrom frm grub ;-) > // This returned no error, says it found the ex2fs > kernel=/boot/gnumach.g

Location of the large tarball

2000-10-07 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
hi, Where is the large tarball for cross install ftp://alpha.gnu.org/GNU Hurd/contrib/marcus/gnu-latest.tar.gz was where i last found it. it has moved or i am wrong please help. -- ... The only "intuitive" interface is a nipple. After that, it's

Re: is apt working?

2000-10-07 Thread jc
hey hey, I was having a problem with "apt-get update" also, not the same strangeness that arthur was getting.. Mine was downloading everything fine but then saying a line in the Package list was too long.. Anyway 0.3.19 is working much better.. In sources.list I am using lines like: deb ftp:

Re: is apt working?

2000-10-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:18:35PM +0200, Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I made a fresh install now, this time with apt in $optlist of > cross-install, for it to be available from the start. > > Everything went smooth this time, except for the known > /dev/fd/5: ALL:: error f

is apt working?

2000-10-07 Thread Arthur Korn
Hi I made a fresh install now, this time with apt in $optlist of cross-install, for it to be available from the start. Everything went smooth this time, except for the known /dev/fd/5: ALL:: error from tcpd (is it harmful?). But apt doesn't work. (How do you hurd ppl install packages?). My sour

Re: First Boot

2000-10-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, jc wrote: > blork, > > aye! seems I am wrong.. In the mean time I got it > working on a different system(only one ide drive).. Oh > man that is funny, haha. > > I am running dselect as I type.. How did you mess your > system up? Oh well.. > > For starters, remove tetex-bin f

Re: Getting up to speed

2000-10-07 Thread Remy Saville
- Original Message - From: "Marcus Brinkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Remy Saville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 07, 2000 12:00 PM Subject: Re: Getting up to speed Is this one of those lists where everything is sent to a user and carbon copied to the list, or vise vers

Re: First Boot

2000-10-07 Thread Arthur Korn
jc schrieb: > aye! seems I am wrong.. In the mean time I got it > working on a different system(only one ide drive).. Oh > man that is funny, haha. I espetially like that console-tools isn't ported yet, know I know the american keyboard better than many americans ... (mine is labeled as swiss-germ

Re: First Boot

2000-10-07 Thread jc
blork, aye! seems I am wrong.. In the mean time I got it working on a different system(only one ide drive).. Oh man that is funny, haha. I am running dselect as I type.. How did you mess your system up? Oh well.. -Jeremy --- Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, seems, you got it wron

Re: First Boot

2000-10-07 Thread Arthur Korn
jc schrieb: > --- Pankaj Kaushal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How my IDE drives look: > ide 0: Master, Dedicated Harddrive housing Linux > ide 0: Slave, CD-ROM > ide 1: Master, CD-RW > ide 1: Slave, Dedicated Harddrive for Hurd The hurd disk is (hd1) for GRUB and hd4 for MACH. > So I reboo

Re: Getting up to speed

2000-10-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:40:14AM -0700, Remy Saville wrote: > I'm a professional programmer by day, and am thinking that it > could be cool to join the HURD project. I heard about it a long > time ago, but only recently took a long hard look at it. It > sounds pretty cool. Welcome to the Hurd.

Getting up to speed

2000-10-07 Thread Remy Saville
I'm a professional programmer by day, and am thinking that it could be cool to join the HURD project. I heard about it a long time ago, but only recently took a long hard look at it. It sounds pretty cool. However the gnu hurd page seems to be from 97 and was most recently updated in 99. Ouch,

Re: First Boot

2000-10-07 Thread jc
--- Pankaj Kaushal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > jc wrote: > > > > ie. root=(hd1,0), kernel=blahblahblah > > well to get help please decode the blah blah blah > for > us humans. Pankaj! I can see how that might be impossible to interpolate. I'll list everything I can think of: -My system is D

further preparations done (was: Re: someone can port user space ppp now

2000-10-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 04:44:00PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > b. Porting ppp. I have now prepared a ppp source tar file which is hacked to compile the lot of the source files cleanly. This involved providing a few preprocessor symbols (MAXHOSTNAMELEN, MAXPATHLEN, _BSD_VA_LIST_) and messing a

hurd install

2000-10-07 Thread Dave Slack
Hello all I decided to give the hurd a try. I'm just a user not a programmer. All seem to go well once I figured out which drive and patition is which. Got the system to boot up. I used the tar ball method. 2921 tar file I think. During the second run of native-install noticed message Se

Re: First Boot

2000-10-07 Thread Pankaj Kaushal
jc wrote: > > morning, > > This is my first attempted at a hurd install. I am at > step. I punch in all the right numbers, without > errors. > ie. root=(hd1,0), kernel=blahblahblah well to get help please decode the blah blah blah for us humans. > Anyway, I tried to boot again, and it gave me

First Boot

2000-10-07 Thread jc
morning, This is my first attempted at a hurd install. I am at a loss as to what to do right now, I am following the "easy guide" and have gotten to the single user boot step. I punch in all the right numbers, without errors. ie. root=(hd1,0), kernel=blahblahblah well, when I type 'boot' the com