Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

2013-05-17 Thread Philip Charles
#x27;t be done by other people than the usual ever-busy > developers. > > Samuel Breaking the deafening silence. I am not in a position to do this, a lack of time and don't have enough knowledge of the Hurd. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Ze

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

2013-05-14 Thread Philip Charles
cial features which Hurd offers. Say three levels per feature, illustrative, practical, advanced practical. This needs to in the same directory and the images so people downloading an image will see it. This should be an effective promotional tool. This suggestion was inspired by what I saw

Congratulations on the imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release.

2013-05-10 Thread Philip Charles
Hi everyone, Congratulations to everyone involved. I am proud to have been part of this project. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

2013-05-01 Thread Philip Charles
e > packages from debian-ports, and some packages from unstable which are > not in wheezy. > > So how should we call it? > > "wheesid" was suggested at some point ;) > > Samuel Astmatic? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford,

Thanks for the thanks.

2010-07-26 Thread Philip Charles
the HHGG fans "DON'T PANIC" Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Resignation

2010-07-24 Thread Philip Charles
itments. There are now people working on the Debian GNU/Hurd installer and they are quite capable of taking over. Over a ten year period I have produced 39 sets of iso images of varying quality. Good luck for the future and I am looking forward to the first official release. Phil. -- Phili

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation discs

2010-05-18 Thread Philip Charles
my HDD so I can remove any troublesome packages, usually by removing them from Packages.*. One useful addition config/packages is mc. It can be useful in hunting down problems in a partially configured system. Now it is a matter of trial and error. Questions welcome. Phil. -- Philip Charle

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation discs

2010-05-17 Thread Philip Charles
sets. However, I will not be doing any development and will be looking to simplify the production process. It will be a least two months before I can start looking at the L2 set. Let us hope that the Debian installer is successfully ported. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street

Debian GNU/Hurd installation discs

2010-05-14 Thread Philip Charles
back please. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian

Re: L1

2010-04-21 Thread Philip Charles
by the state of the Debian/GNU-Hurd archive and my blood pressure. These two factors are not orthogonal. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.n

Re: Fresh and updated qemu image

2010-04-18 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi, > > On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 10:46:11AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > On Sun, 18 Apr 2010, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: > > > I was preparing an up to date Debian GNU/Hurd qemu image. Based on > > >

Re: Fresh and updated qemu image

2010-04-17 Thread Philip Charles
try Debian GNU/Hurd through qemu need a system > newer than k16 image (2007). > > Let me know what you think, please. > > Thanks very much, in advance. > > Regards. > > Jose. > There is an L1 image at http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/. Phil -- P

Re: Error when running native-install

2010-04-10 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Sun 11 Apr 2010 11:55:26 +1300, a écrit : > > On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Patrik Olsson wrote: > > > Besides, I cannot boot into single-user mode anymore. It freezes on > > > loading "auth" (

Re: Error when running native-install

2010-04-10 Thread Philip Charles
native-install has configured it. You may have successfully install it. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - busines

Re: GRUB usb stick for booting Debian/Hurd available

2010-04-10 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 11 Apr 2010, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Sun 11 Apr 2010 02:05:56 +1300, a écrit : > > Note that GRUB 0.97 uses (hd1,0) to identify partition 1 on disk 1. > > Like GRUB 2. > > Err, "unlike GRUB 2" you mean? > > Samuel > Quite r

GRUB usb stick for booting Debian/Hurd available

2010-04-10 Thread Philip Charles
0.97 uses (hd1,0) to identify partition 1 on disk 1. Like GRUB 2. This will be included in future disc sets. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz

Re: Error when running native-install

2010-04-10 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 10 Apr 2010, Patrik Olsson wrote: > > How do I fix this? Is it safe to run the script again? > > /Patrik > Have a go. Let us know what happens. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 287

Re: Error when running native-install

2010-04-09 Thread Philip Charles
e using one of the installation discs then you should have created a GRUB floppy or grub CD from the images on the disc before starting the installation. They have the 'magic' in menu.lst to make the installation easier. You have prompted me to start preparing a GRUB USB stick. Phil. --

Re: can grub be installed by installation cd automatically?

2010-04-05 Thread Philip Charles
en the floppy and iso imaged can be found on the DVD in the /hurd directory. They can also be downloaded via my home page http://www.copyleft.co.nz/links.html Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875

Re: Debian-installer on Debian GNU/Hurd as a GSoC project

2010-03-19 Thread Philip Charles
years. Would it be appropriate to > apply to both? (after all, who am I to deny either of them a chance to > accept my application :-P) > > Of course I'd also be interested in any advice you would care to give > me and I would be glad to answer any question you may have. >

Re: messagebus and haldaemon users in baseGNU.tgz

2009-12-06 Thread Philip Charles
t. I have not checked, but I expect that passwd has been fixed. Thanks for the feedback. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copy

Re: L1 DVD and mini iso

2009-10-25 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Tue 20 Oct 2009 00:13:14 +1300, a écrit : > > On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > I'm fixing a bug that arises with grub2 and which could also happen > > > with grub on machines with a

Re: L1 mini iso. Duplicate packages in sid and unreleased.

2009-10-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 14:14:41 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 13:18:23 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:04:15PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > > > The

iso's uploaded

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Charles
The iso's have been uploaded to debian-ports and just need to be moved into place. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.

Re: L1 DVD and mini iso

2009-10-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 19 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Philip Charles, le Mon 19 Oct 2009 00:23:21 +1300, a écrit : > > I want to have a break from the Hurd iso's so I am proposing to > > upload the two images "as is" with some modification of Cook-book. &g

L1 isos uploading

2009-10-18 Thread Philip Charles
The DVD, mini iso and tarball are being uploaded to debian-ports. I would like fedd-back and suggestions please. At this time the likely eta is 12 hours. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile

L1 DVD and mini iso

2009-10-18 Thread Philip Charles
kages was installed. I want to have a break from the Hurd iso's so I am proposing to upload the two images "as is" with some modification of Cook-book. Or would people prefer to wait two or three weeks when I will have time to polish up the images. Phil. -- Philip Charles;

Re: L1 mini iso. Duplicate packages in sid and unreleased.

2009-10-16 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:04:15PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > There are ~180 hurd packages duplicated in unreleased and sid. > > > > 131 of these are obsolete packages in unreleased, ie the duplicates >

Re: L1 mini iso. Duplicate packages in sid and unreleased.

2009-10-16 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009, Guillem Jover wrote: > Hi! > > On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 13:18:23 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 07:04:15PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > > There are ~180 hurd packages duplicated in unreleased and sid. > > >

L1 mini iso. Duplicate packages in sid and unreleased.

2009-10-15 Thread Philip Charles
Hi, There are ~180 hurd packages duplicated in unreleased and sid. 131 of these are obsolete packages in unreleased, ie the duplicates in sid are newer. I have generated a list of these packages. Anyone want to use it to remove the offending packags from unreleased? Phil. -- Philip

mini iso - crosshurd

2009-10-15 Thread Philip Charles
to immediately remove the unreleased package once a replacement has entered sid. A manual fix is to remove the reference to the package from Packages(.gz) in unreleased. The investigation is continuing. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-14 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Thu 15 Oct 2009 10:50:17 +1300, a écrit : > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Philip Charles, le Thu 15 Oct 2009 10:00:56 +1300, a écrit : > > > > The problem is that insserv is

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-14 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Thu 15 Oct 2009 10:00:56 +1300, a écrit : > > The problem is that insserv is not configured before sysv-rc which > > means that update-rc.d cannot find insserv. > > Mmm, I don't understand: there'

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-14 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 15 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Thu 15 Oct 2009 00:41:33 +1300, a écrit : > > New problem when configuring initscripts. 'Can't exec "insserv" No > > such file or directory at /usr/bin/update-rc.d line 387' > > insser

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-14 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Wed 14 Oct 2009 15:29:40 +1300, a écrit : > > The only available util-linux is in unreleased, 2.14~rc2-0+hurd.1 > > dated 2 Oct 2008. > > > > Is there another version hiding somewhere? > > It'

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Wed, 14 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Wed 14 Oct 2009 00:43:56 +1300, a écrit : > > > Maybe you have the old version (2.14~rc2-0) of the package from > > > debian-ports? The current unstable version (2.16.1-3) has the > > > /sbin/fsck

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-13 Thread Philip Charles
ckages.debian.org/sid/hurd-i386/util-linux/filelist > fsck is supposed to be included in e2fsprogs. The installed version is 1.41.9.1 - dated 12 October. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile

Re: pfinet, random (was: L1 mini iso)

2009-10-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hello! > > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 08:50:58PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Philip Charles, le Mon 12 Oct 2009 23:52:32 +1300, a écrit : > > > > 1. Does ent

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Tue 13 Oct 2009 20:50:58 +1300, a écrit : > > > > 2. Configuring the network > > > > ten days ago "settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i > > > > eth0 \ -a 192

Re: L1 mini iso

2009-10-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > Philip Charles, le Mon 12 Oct 2009 23:52:32 +1300, a écrit : > > I should be able to upload the L1 mini iso to debian-ports in about > > 24 hours. > > Cool! > Maybe you have noticed that I have uploaded a

L1 mini iso

2009-10-12 Thread Philip Charles
not checking the documentation for X11 at this stage. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: L1 iso's - progress to date.

2009-10-03 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 03 Oct 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Sat 03 Oct 2009 21:19:12 +1300, a écrit : > > The Hurd cannot access files toward the end of a DVD. > > How far to the end? It may just be the 2GB or 4GB limit. > I have egg all over my face! (I made a foo

L1 iso's - progress to date.

2009-10-03 Thread Philip Charles
or baseGNU (Crosshurd lists) Workout a sensible order for package placement on the iso sets. AND the things I have forgotten. I am away all of next week, Monday to Saturday. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64

Hurd L1 iso images.

2009-09-30 Thread Philip Charles
reate Debian GNU/Hurd iso images. However, considerable tuning of the scripts is needed. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.

Hurd L1 iso's. Progress log.

2009-09-28 Thread Philip Charles
available. Any questions? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

L1 mini iso

2009-09-27 Thread Philip Charles
db4.7 in archive. netbase configuration awaiting resolution. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -

netbase config errors

2009-09-27 Thread Philip Charles
nfs has to be enabled to start service networking Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: libdb4.7 missing

2009-09-26 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Sat 26 Sep 2009 12:23:48 +1200, a écrit : > > We have libdb4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, in the archive, but no 4.7 > > Rebuilt and uploaded, should be available in next mirror push. > > Samuel > Great, tha

Re: libdb4.7 missing

2009-09-26 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Michael Banck wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 12:23:48PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > The debian GNU/Hurd archive is in a mess at the moment. > > > > libdb4.7 is missing. apt-utils, libpam-modules, perl et al depend on > > this package, and ot

libdb4.7 missing

2009-09-25 Thread Philip Charles
The debian GNU/Hurd archive is in a mess at the moment. libdb4.7 is missing. apt-utils, libpam-modules, perl et al depend on this package, and other packages in turn depend on these. We have libdb4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.6, 4.8, in the archive, but no 4.7 Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson

login failure

2009-09-22 Thread Philip Charles
the meantime, one thing at a time. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: The /usr > . sysmlink

2009-09-22 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Tue 22 Sep 2009 18:00:25 +1200, a écrit : > > Is the /usr > . symlink still the standard on Debian GNU/Hurd > > systems? > > Nope, it poses too many issues that we can't necessarily fix. > > Sam

The /usr > . sysmlink

2009-09-21 Thread Philip Charles
Is the /usr > . symlink still the standard on Debian GNU/Hurd systems? Thanks. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co

Locked out of Hurd installation

2009-09-21 Thread Philip Charles
I cannot find a password that will enable me to log into my new Hurd installation. Installed using crosshurd. Any ideas? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Mon 21 Sep 2009 01:36:43 +1200, a écrit : > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Yes, deboostrap seems to be working atm. > > > > Playing catchup and making progress. Problem, what is t

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Yes, deboostrap seems to be working atm. > > Samuel > Hi, Playing catchup and making progress. Problem, what is the root password for a new installation. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Ze

Re: GRUB menu.lst entries.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Michael Banck wrote: > Philip, > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:15:25PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > Thanks, it is what I have been using (without the newlines). What I > > have been doing here suggests that crosshurd is not working. > > If c

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +1200, a écrit : > > Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few > > weeks let me know how they did it. > > I usually just use crosshurd. > > Samuel

Re: GRUB menu.lst entries.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 13:14:33 +1200, a écrit : > > Are these still the entries for menu.lst for booting the Hurd? > > Yes, but avoid newlines between lines, else the \ won't manage to join > them. > > Sa

Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
Hi, Not wanting to reinvent the wheel. Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few weeks let me know how they did it. I am in the process of planning for the L1 and M1 installation discs. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin

GRUB menu.lst entries.

2009-09-19 Thread Philip Charles
} \ -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) Thanks, Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz

Re: Hurd CDs

2009-08-31 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 01 Sep 2009, olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: > Hi, > > On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:43:07PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > IIRC, modern Linux gzip can gzip and ungzip Hurd partitions. > Or do you actually mean tar? I don't think GNU tar can deal with Hurd >

Re: Hurd CDs

2009-08-31 Thread Philip Charles
At this stage the more Hurd enthusiasts that get familiar with the debian-installer the better, I will be looking at this myself. Regards. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 ph

Re: Hurd CDs

2009-08-31 Thread Philip Charles
that one person can do all that is needed. However, we do have about five-six of us who have some interest in this project. Worth looking at. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 48

Re: Hurd CDs

2009-08-29 Thread Philip Charles
is correct then we can do away with native-install. Rewrite dbootstrap as as shell script. 1. This would make modifications easier and safer. 2. Dbootstrap could then be ported to GNU/HURD. Create a disc that boots into Hurd and loads a Hurd initrd. At this stage consult with the Debian Installer T

Hurd CDs

2009-08-23 Thread Philip Charles
, probably using linux kernel 2.6.x. Feedback please. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: K16 CD Install woes - RFH

2008-04-28 Thread Philip Charles
tall' > > directory on the CD-ROM which.. I can't find anywhere.. Off the root directory of the CD. Can be downloaded by ftp from www.copyleft.co.nz/grub_0.94 (or ../grub-94.iso if you need a CD) Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Ze

Re: K16 images - moving into place.

2007-12-18 Thread Philip Charles
I emailed Aurelien earlier today asking him to move the K16 imamages from incoming to the right place. It may be I asked the wrong person. If the the right person reads this list would they please do the moving. Thanks. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin

Re: K16 images - uploading

2007-12-18 Thread Philip Charles
re is it does not work on the Hurd, so larger discs are better for users. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business --

Re: K16 images - uploading

2007-12-18 Thread Philip Charles
On Tuesday 18 December 2007 02:05, Michael Banck wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:00:19AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > > This was the toughest set I have had to produce. It has taken me > > about 150 hours to get to this point. The job is far too big for one >

K16 images - uploading

2007-12-17 Thread Philip Charles
person. The two DVDs I am uploading have all the packages. The four CDs have most of these. In total there are four DVDs and 17 CDs. If people want statistics I will get onto them in a few days. Enjoy. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64

K16 iso's Apt and aptitude

2007-12-12 Thread Philip Charles
that does not work and the size of Debian GNU/Hurd, then access to a DVD becomes important. Any ideas? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal

K15

2007-12-05 Thread Philip Charles
Sorry folks. Ran out of time. With luck K15 (or should it be K16?) will be ready towards the end of next week. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: gnuab.org down / new archive at debian-ports.org

2007-12-03 Thread Philip Charles
llowed to > upload to this archive. Please contact me if it is not the case. > > The machine also runs the wanna-build database [6] for those > architectures, and collects the build logs [7]. Thanks for this. I adjusted my scripts and can upload and download successfully. Phil.

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-12-03 Thread Philip Charles
. > > "start /hurd/ext2fs.static: ext2fs: device:hd0s1: panic: > disk_cache_init: Block size 1024 != vm_page_size 4096". That is the same as I was getting. The problem is solved here as well. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-12-01 Thread Philip Charles
I have a clean baseGNU/tarball with a working aptitude. I plan to look at the disc sets over the next few days. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-30 Thread Philip Charles
maintain a local archive the scripts should be able to be adapted to work with a network mirror. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTE

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Thursday 29 November 2007 17:06, Raghesh A wrote: > Dear Philip, > > Thanks a lot. > > We were able to reproduce the block size problem with a partition of > 500 MB. Now we will change the block size to 4096 and test it out. > Good luck. Phil. -- Philip Charles

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Philip Charles
On Thursday 29 November 2007 02:44, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:06:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > No sign of the new glibc and hurd packages yet. I will probably > > create a little script to check daily. > > Oops. I did not upload them becaus

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Philip Charles
hurd packages yet. I will probably create a little script to check daily. > > Hrm, maybe we could run some QA tools on the Packages.gz of the archive > which could report e.g. uninstallable packages. Not sure what exactly > is available in this field or whether you're doing so already

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-26 Thread Philip Charles
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 06:42, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:37:17PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > I will quietly work on the revisions and let everyone how I get on. > > I am not sure at which point of the K15 process you are at, but I think > now wo

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 15:17, Michael Banck wrote: > > 2. There is a /usr->. symlink, not a real /usr. > I need direction on this. 1. Is the / filesystem to remain as I have it? 2. is the /usr->. to be removed? 3. is the /usr filesystem to follow the Linux example? Phil

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-21 Thread Philip Charles
points. I will put up the scripts at the Copyleft site after building and testing. With luck you should be able to build the tarball yourselves if you have not done so already. I am copying this to the hurd list so they know what we are up to. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street,

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-20 Thread Philip Charles
Thanks for this Michael, On Wednesday 21 November 2007 15:17, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:43:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > This has turned out to be a tidy image and should not give any > > problems. > > I tested it now on qemu an

K15 mini iso

2007-11-20 Thread Philip Charles
re welcome. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: K15 problem, found and fixed.

2007-11-13 Thread Philip Charles
On Sunday 11 November 2007 04:08, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:44:03AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > On Thursday 08 November 2007 06:41, Michael Banck wrote: > > > Did you use the ones from > > > http://www.debian.org/ports/hu

Re: K15 problem - build system uploaded.

2007-11-10 Thread Philip Charles
On Sunday 11 November 2007 04:08, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 10:44:03AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > On Thursday 08 November 2007 06:41, Michael Banck wrote: > > > Did you use the ones from > > > http://www.debian.org/ports/hu

Re: K15 problem.

2007-11-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Thursday 08 November 2007 06:41, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 12:39:06AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > Not a very helpful answer.  Using Marcus' cross-install and > > dpkg-hurd. > > Did you use the ones from > http://www.debian.org/ports/hu

Re: K15 problem.

2007-11-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 23:29, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > Hello! > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:58:15PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > I have run into the "diskfs_execboot_fsys_startup:unexpected error" > > problem. > > > > I have looked at the th

Re: K15 problem.

2007-11-07 Thread Philip Charles
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 23:11, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:58:15PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > I have run into the "diskfs_execboot_fsys_startup:unexpected error" > > problem. > > How did you create/install the base tarball/packag

K15 problem.

2007-11-07 Thread Philip Charles
ed to boot them. The first showstopper of the K15 series. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: old K4 isos for archive

2007-10-12 Thread Philip Charles
> Considering the issue of upgrading from K14/K11 I think this would be > worth the effort > http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20070907.163730.fad75215.en. >html Regards If people want it, I could build a K15 set next month. (I am trying give up this project). Phil. -- Philip C

Re: LX1 installer and Debian GNU/Hurd

2007-08-22 Thread Philip Charles
The Debian GNU/Hurd installer project had become far too big for me to handle and I am pleased the the Calicut teams are making such good progress. They seem to have reached the very important stage of being able to do without me. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford

Re: latest ISO images

2007-07-14 Thread Philip Charles
ess of taking over the task of producing the iso's. The L1 series is their development version. The latest stable version is K14. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [

Re: X in hurd

2007-05-06 Thread Philip Charles
. > http://messenger.msn.com/Download/Default.aspx?mkt=en-in -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs & DVDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz

Re: installer for hurd.

2007-05-03 Thread Philip Charles
ot have the energy to do further development for some time. I am looking forward to playing with L1 will all its improvements. FYI, CK Raju, Kiran and the rest are from the University of Calicut, Kerala (the South West Coast, aka Malibar Coast) India. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson

Re: apt sources.list

2007-03-03 Thread Philip Charles
Nigel, If you are using the CDROM it will be st up for you. Phil. On Sunday 04 March 2007 04:09, Nigel Horne wrote: > I'm using K14 - what's the best values to put in /etc/apt/sources.list? > > -Nigel -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, N

Re: K10 is still current?

2007-01-14 Thread Philip Charles
re a snapshot. This means that these are produced without interrupting the development process. Debian GNU/Hurd has just emerged from a period of instability and so the images are now usable again. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818

Re: K14 being uploaded (Newbie question)

2006-12-02 Thread Philip Charles
ks with Debian GNU/Linux. See the Hurd Install Guide on the first CD. Phil. > > On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 01:28 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 19:14:13 +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > >The K14 iso's are being uploaded to > > >

Re: X11 not working

2006-11-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 21:26, Alejandro Serrano wrote: > Philip Charles escribió: > > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:40, Alejandro Serrano wrote: > >> Philip Charles escribió: > >>> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 09:57, Alejandro Serrano wrote: > >>&

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