hurd upgrade

2000-09-30 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Hi I installed the apt package from alpha.gnu.org. And ran 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' When it's about to install the hurd package (000921) I get an conflict error: "shellutils conflicts with login (<< 19990827-1)" "hurd provides login and is to be installed" "conflicting packages - not

Re: newbie

2000-09-24 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Neal H Walfield wrote: > Hi, > > This is strange. Try a reinstall (ie format the partition and rerun > cross-install). If this works, try to see what, if anything went > differently. If you have the same results, try using the tarball > installation. > > -Neal > > -- > Neal H Walfield > Univers

Re: newbie

2000-09-24 Thread Magnus Holmgren
> > > > /libexec/console-run: cannot execute /bin/sh: No such file or directory > > /hurd/init: /bin/sh exited with status 5 > > This is not good. It looks like you do not have a shell. Try mounting > your gnu partition and taking a poke around. Ok i did that, i have /bin/sh and it points to /bi

newbie

2000-09-24 Thread Magnus Holmgren
Hi everyone, I installed the Debian GNU/Hurd a few days ago, and I ran into some trouble. I followed the Easy guide. made a partition <1gb mke2fs -O sparse_super -o hurd /dev/hda6 installed with the cross-install script. installed grub on the machine,(since i don't have a floppy drive) rebooted an