Hurd-console on reboot (xbd vs kbd)

2011-04-15 Thread David Hiran Watson
- worked fine; upon reboot the hurd console started up automatically So it seems like the hurd console starts on reboot only when KBD='-d pc_kbd', regardless of the KBD_REPEAT option. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com

Install log

2011-04-05 Thread David Hiran Watson
point the installer validated the existing packages, and was able to sufficiently retrieve libc0.3. From that point, the rest of the installation of Hurd went smoothly. This time around I pastebin'd the syslog, and you can find it here: http://pastebin.com/Nu98R5ax God bless David

RE: Select kernel to install

2011-04-05 Thread David Hiran Watson
I saw your second mail but I didn't quite get what you meant. Now I do; thanks. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: Samuel Thibault [mailto:sthiba...@debian.org] Sent: April-05-11 5:14 AM To: David Hiran Watson Cc: debian

RE: Select kernel to install

2011-04-05 Thread David Hiran Watson
ntinue" at the previous step. In fact, in the 20110308 iso installer, I remember installing in Expert mode and still not getting this option. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: Samuel Thibault [mailto:sthiba...@debian.org] Sent: April-0

Select kernel to install

2011-04-05 Thread David Hiran Watson
99-xen-dbg none This is the first time I've encountered this step; it wasn't in the 20110308 ïso installer. What's the difference between images? Thanks. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com

Deb sources

2011-03-21 Thread David Hiran Watson
download just stayed at 0%. I eventually typed Ctrl+C to kill the operation. Any ideas? Thanks. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com

Re: Installing base system using mini-20110308.iso

2011-03-19 Thread David Hiran Watson
uot;settrans /hurd/pfinet ??" --Original Message------ From: Samuel Thibault To: David Hiran Watson Cc: Mailing List - Debian GNU/Hurd Subject: Re: Installing base system using mini-20110308.iso Sent: 19 Mar 2011 09:40 David Hiran Watson, le Sat 19 Mar 2011 13:34:59 +, a écrit :

Re: Installing base system using mini-20110308.iso

2011-03-19 Thread David Hiran Watson
Would the syslog(s) from the install still be available on the installed system? If so, where? There is no /var/sys folder. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: Samuel Thibault Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2011 14:28:31 To: Subject: Re: Installing

Installing base system using mini-20110308.iso

2011-03-19 Thread David Hiran Watson
than a warning to me! --Original Message-- From: Samuel Thibault To: David Hiran Watson Cc: Svante Signell Cc: Mailing List - Debian GNU/Hurd Subject: Re: Problems: Questions on mini-20110308.iso Sent: 18 Mar 2011 19:06 David Hiran Watson, le Fri 18 Mar 2011 19:46:30 +, a écrit

Re: Problems: Questions on mini-20110308.iso

2011-03-18 Thread David Hiran Watson
(I know libc-bin installed because I manually tried to install it using apt-get and was told it was already installed). So I guess in my prior attempts I failed to persevere! God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: Svante Signell Date: Fri, 18

Re: Install issues

2011-03-18 Thread David Hiran Watson
I didn't know about the installed disk image. I will try once more to do a clean net install, and if that fails, look into the disk image. As for the alternative terminals, can I view them using expert install? God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -Original Me

Re: Install issues

2011-03-18 Thread David Hiran Watson
The mini.iso and network install. --Original Message-- From: William ML Leslie To: Mailing List - Debian GNU/Hurd Cc: David Hiran Watson Subject: Re: Install issues Sent: 18 Mar 2011 03:34 On 18 March 2011 16:17, David Hiran Watson wrote: > Any suggestions on alternative methods

Install issues

2011-03-17 Thread David Hiran Watson
the console but I'm not sure how! Thanks. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1267666

Does Hurd support SATA?

2011-03-08 Thread David Hiran Watson
Or does Hurd only support IDE? God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1817659740-

Re: Partitioning for a Hurd install

2011-03-08 Thread David Hiran Watson
bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com On 17 February 2011 11:06, Samuel Thibault wrote: > olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Thu 17 Feb 2011 15:40:32 +0100, a écrit : > > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:02:29PM -, m...@mythic-beasts.com wrote: > > > > > A

Re: Does Hurd support smp?

2011-02-19 Thread David Hiran Watson
Sorry Samuel, but my second question should have read "If not...". So since Hurd can but Mach cannot, what would you recommend I do - only specify 1 processor for the vm for Hurd? God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: Samuel Thib

Does Hurd support smp?

2011-02-19 Thread David Hiran Watson
Does Hurd support multiple processors? If so, I can only give 1 processor to the vm I'm using for Hurd. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Partitioning for a Hurd install

2011-02-15 Thread David Hiran Watson
about the virtual disks? Thanks. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/16480

Re: Installing Debian hurd/amd64

2011-02-05 Thread David Hiran Watson
--Original Message-- From: Svante Signell To: David Hiran Watson Cc: Samuel Thibault Cc: Debian GNU/Hurd Mailing List Subject: Re: Installing Debian hurd/amd64 Sent: Feb 5, 2011 07:13 On Sat, 2011-02-05 at 03:05 +0000, David Hiran Watson wrote: > Hey all, I've been following this thread

Re: Installing Debian hurd/amd64

2011-02-05 Thread David Hiran Watson
stall Hurd? I can install Debian Linux as a vm, and use crosshurd. Or should I use the latest i386 ISO? Also would Debian Hurd benefit from hardware virtualization turned on (AMD-V)? God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: Samuel Thibault Date: F

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd as a virtual OS

2010-04-22 Thread David Hiran Watson
If there is no APM support, how do I shutdown/turn off the Hurd when I'm finished? Isn't doing a hard power switch kill dangerous for the OS? --Original Message-- From: Samuel Thibault To: David Hiran Watson Cc: Debian GNU/Hurd Mailing List Subject: Re: Installing Debian GNU

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd as a virtual OS

2010-04-22 Thread David Hiran Watson
tc. Does Hurd have X Server support? If not then I only have to worry about keyboard capture. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com Music: http://www.soundclick.com/dehin Blog: http://dehin.wordpress.com | http://dehin.posterous.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dehin Sent

Re: Installing Debian GNU/Hurd as a virtual OS

2010-04-22 Thread David Hiran Watson
Linux-based vm and mod it as need be. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hiranwat...@gmail.com Music: http://www.soundclick.com/dehin Blog: http://dehin.wordpress.com | http://dehin.posterous.com Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/dehin Sent from my BlackBerry device on the Rogers Wireless Ne

Installing Debian GNU/Hurd as a virtual OS

2010-04-22 Thread David Hiran Watson
Does anyone have any experience installing the Hurd as a virtual OS? I'm running WinXP SP3 with the latest version of Sun Virtual Box. I want to install the Hurd as a virtual OS. Is anyone aware of pitfalls or issues I should watch out for? Thanks. God bless David Hiran Watson e: hir

Running fold...@home

2009-08-06 Thread David Hiran Watson
Hi, I want to try installing and running the latest version of Hurd on an old pc I have - P4 between 1-2GHz. I basically have acquired a few older pcs, and want to run various non-MS OSes to 'play' with them. Anyway, on my main machine I run fold...@home (http://folding.stanford.edu), which is a di