Re: Trying out HURD

2004-08-12 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Thu, 12 Aug 2004 01:12:26 +0200, "Michael Banck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:02:34PM -0700, Yaakov wrote: > > wonderful, i just got K5 CDs... > > how severe is the change between K5 and K7 that if I code something in > > K5, will it decently work on K7 or will it be li

Re: Trying out HURD

2004-08-11 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:45:19 +0200, "Marco Gerards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Goody! So ten days well wait then. I hope the release would be announced > > on this list right? > > Or just use K6 and use apt-get to get an up-to-date system. Nah! Problem is that I will be downloading HURD on

Re: Trying out HURD

2004-08-11 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 17:08:22 +1200 (NZST), "Philip Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > GNU is emerging from a bad period as far as iso images are concerned. > K5 was the last full set built. > K6 mini iso is an interrim iso for a network installation. > K7 is about to be built and is waiting for

Trying out HURD

2004-08-10 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
Hi! I'd like to try out HURD on my system at home. I checked out the Debian HURD-cd pages (http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd) and figure that if I download the K5 ISO images from http://eu.hurd.gnuab.org/pub/debian-cd/K5/, I can install HURD using that. However, while snooping around the