Re: bootserver.gz deprecated?

2003-05-29 Thread Ashish Gokhale
> I saw something in the mail archives that the > "grub>module=/boot/bootserver.gz" method is > deprecated. Can anyone shed > light on what I'm supposed to be doing instead? I have followed an installation guide written by Niel H. Walfield. http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide

Re: My Experiences installing the Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
Kurt B. Kaiser wrote: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm new to the Hurd, and have written my experiences installing it at: http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html I hope I can convince you to revise your paragraphs about the early history of GNU/Li

Re: My Experiences installing the Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm new to the Hurd, and have written my experiences installing it at: > > http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html > > and > > http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html > > in case an

RE: Hurd freezes

2003-05-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 29 May 2003, deFreese, Barry wrote: > I have seen several postings about the mount freeze issue so you may want to > google on that. However, don't use mount, you need to use settrans. I have found that mount works well enough to cause problems and to deceive the operator. Avoid. Phil.

Re: Hurd freezes

2003-05-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I never quite get finished with the installation, as problems arise > (see > http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html > for details). At one point I typed "mount" to see what drives were > mounted, and the system froz

Re: bootserver.gz deprecated?

2003-05-29 Thread Marco Gerards
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I saw something in the mail archives that the > "grub>module=/boot/bootserver.gz" method is deprecated. Can anyone > shed light on what I'm supposed to be doing instead? (I'm a newbie - > context to this question can be found in my notes at > http://faculty.

Re: When's the move to L4?

2003-05-29 Thread Farid Hajji
> I understand that there are some design flaws in the gnumach kernel > (which affect speed, among perhaps other things), and the general idea > is to move the Hurd to the L4 kernel. Any comments on the status of that > move? Please follow the discussions on [EMAIL PROTECTED] by scanning the ar

Re: How to run fsck?

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
deFreese, Barry wrote: From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] After a freeze of the Hurd on a newbie install forcing a power cycle, I get errors about needing to run fsck. What's the syntax to run it on my root partition, which in Linux would be referred to as /dev/hdc1 and elsewhere is ref

Re: Where's my swap partition?

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
deFreese, Barry wrote: From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I've just attempted to install the Hurd, and after running "native-install" the second time was instructed to add swap to /etc/fstab. How do I refer to my swap partition? Here's my partition table as I defined it in cfdisk from Lin

RE: How to run fsck?

2003-05-29 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:05 PM > To: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org > Subject: How to run fsck? > > > After a freeze of the Hurd on a newbie install forcing a > power cycle, I > get errors about needing to run fsck.

RE: Where's my swap partition?

2003-05-29 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 1:01 PM > To: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org > Subject: Where's my swap partition? > > > I've just attempted to install the Hurd, and after running > "native-install" the second time was instruc

RE: Hurd freezes

2003-05-29 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2003 12:55 PM > To: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org > Subject: Hurd freezes > > > I've tried a couple of times to install the Hurd on a clean > drive. I've > experienced several hard freezes, requiri

How to run fsck?

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
After a freeze of the Hurd on a newbie install forcing a power cycle, I get errors about needing to run fsck. What's the syntax to run it on my root partition, which in Linux would be referred to as /dev/hdc1 and elsewhere is referred to as (hd0,0) and elsewhere is referred to as hd2s1? Thanks!

Where's my swap partition?

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
I've just attempted to install the Hurd, and after running "native-install" the second time was instructed to add swap to /etc/fstab. How do I refer to my swap partition? Here's my partition table as I defined it in cfdisk from Linux: /dev/hdc1 200MB / /dev/hdc5 1200MB /usr /dev/hdc6

When's the move to L4?

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
I understand that there are some design flaws in the gnumach kernel (which affect speed, among perhaps other things), and the general idea is to move the Hurd to the L4 kernel. Any comments on the status of that move? Thanks! -- Kent

bootserver.gz deprecated?

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
I saw something in the mail archives that the "grub>module=/boot/bootserver.gz" method is deprecated. Can anyone shed light on what I'm supposed to be doing instead? (I'm a newbie - context to this question can be found in my notes at http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_

Hurd freezes

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
I've tried a couple of times to install the Hurd on a clean drive. I've experienced several hard freezes, requiring the power to be cycled. I expected the Hurd to be more resilient against such lockups, but before I assume it's not, I thought I'd better wait and see if I'm just too inexperience

My Experiences installing the Hurd

2003-05-29 Thread Kent West
I'm new to the Hurd, and have written my experiences installing it at: http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html and http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html in case anyone's interested. The first document is pretty rambling