Re: _Buying_ HURD CDs

2001-12-03 Thread Thierry Laronde
dy know who to choose ;) -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

_Buying_ HURD CDs

2001-12-02 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, Neal has tested the modem connection from France this summer... so I think that at least him will understand that with this very same equipment, and the price of the connection, I'm not able to download ISO images. Is there somebody proposing the CDs for sell somewhere? TIA. -- Th

New version of `mkbimage'

2001-10-24 Thread Thierry Laronde
Hello, A new version of the script allowing the creation of bootable virtual disks, with ext2, minix or fat12 fs and the GRUB (patched) is here: http://corpus.polynum.org/admin/mkbimage Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89

Re: H1 images - comments and questions.

2001-10-22 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 10:15:07AM +, Maurizio Boriani wrote: > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 12:43:54PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 09:33:26AM +, Maurizio Boriani wrote: > > > > > > We need anymore linux to start hurd installa

Re: H1 images - comments and questions.

2001-10-22 Thread Thierry Laronde
list. The problem is that Debian boot-floppies at the moment still use Lilo. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde (Alceste) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Key fingerprint = 0FF7 E906 FBAF FE95 FD89 250D 52B1 AE95 6006 F40C

Re: GRUB, CD and extended floppy formats: HOWTO

2001-10-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 07:22:10PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 05:21:27PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > You create a tar archive with all the files that you want to put on the > > virtual disk INCLUDING the ones for the correct version o

GRUB, CD and extended floppy formats: HOWTO

2001-10-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
an have all the features of GRUB (chaining different menu files, loading different kernels and so on, network boot etc.). Enjoy! [and test...] -- Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/ #!/bin/sh # MaKe a Bootable IMAGE --- 1.44,

Re: H1 - grub.

2001-10-14 Thread Thierry Laronde
r I think I have some difficulties keeping my mind on the work with the international situation. Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Site Debian Francophone (aka SDF) : http://www.debian-france.org/

[ANNOUNCE] GRUB + CD + Extended Floppy Formats

2001-10-01 Thread Thierry Laronde
HD (a script will be given to build virtual bootable disks). More explanations will be given when the patches will be published (on the GRUB list for the patches; on the 3 lists for the explanations/HOWTO). GRUB is the definitive BOSS! (BOotStrapping oS). Cheers, -- Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL P

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-23 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:40:44PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:11:43PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > > For instance: > > > > > > (grub) blocklist (hd0,3) > > > 3906945+1953441 > > > (grub) > > > &g

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-23 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 03:08:22PM +0200, Neal H Walfield wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2001 at 03:02:55PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > Since I will perhaps have a _little_ spare time during the next month, I > > plan to work a little on GRUB. > > Hey Thierry, as there is s

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-01 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 01:56:30PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2001 at 09:01:38AM +0900, OKUJI Yoshinori wrote: > > From: Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: GRUB on CD > > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 15:02:55 +0200 > > > > &

Re: GRUB on CD

2001-08-01 Thread Thierry Laronde
delayed virtual mode stuff] -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org/

Re: Anyone has read the FSF Usenix speech ?

2001-07-12 Thread Thierry Laronde
en some improvements in this area, and, for example, Neal has made a great work. Marcus' presentation of the HURD during the LSM/Debian Conference One can be a great help to understand the basics about the HURD. Marcus, do you have put the presentation online yet ? Cheers, -- Thierry LARO

Re: Anyone has read the FSF Usenix speech ?

2001-07-10 Thread Thierry Laronde
y by comparing different ways of doing things, and trying, first, to do them right, and, after, to do them better. It seems that this principle has not been followed by the guy who made the speech ;) -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org/

Anyone has read the FSF Usenix speech ?

2001-07-09 Thread Thierry Laronde
have felt a bit puzzled about whether it was good to give the info or not. Altogether, it's better not to hide. I would like now to have the official position of the FSF. I still think that there is a place for an extended Unix child kernel. /*sigh*/ -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Resso

Re: LSM conference

2001-06-28 Thread Thierry Laronde
approx. time, > channel, server). I don't usually hang out on irc. Obviously we will have an internet connection... so this might be possible ;) Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE, Centre de Ressources Informatiques, Archamps - France http://www.cri74.org/

Re: grub install bug?

2001-02-12 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 08:39:29PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Thierry" == Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thierry> Strange. The only stage physically copied is stage1 > Thierry> (eventually *stage1_5), so I can't

Re: grub install bug?

2001-02-12 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 08:00:42PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Thierry" == Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Thierry> Did you pass this very same command line `install ...' ? > Thierry> What was the argument of

Re: grub install bug?

2001-02-12 Thread Thierry Laronde
py, with grub running `natively', or were you installing grub via the grub-shell, that is from a running OS (Hurd in this case, I suppose) and with the emulation of grub ? Did you pass this very same command line `install ...' ? What was the argument of `p' ? None ? Regards, -- T

Suggestion for the list management

2000-12-04 Thread Thierry Laronde
d work. Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY - FRANCE/ Tel : 33.(0)4.50.67.46.61 /home du SDF (Site Debian Francophone) : http://www.polynum.com/sdf/

Re: some questions on Hurd

2000-12-02 Thread Thierry Laronde
m (Knuth's work) for doing this kind of stuff ("litterate programming") is web (for Pascal), and cweb for C/C++. As usual with Knuth, it's a great idea. But perhaps difficult when developing in community. But it's worth trying. Cu, -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1

Re: L4 instead of gnumach?

2000-10-28 Thread Thierry Laronde
s (distribution). I think that a five days continuous diving in the micro-kernels/HURD subject would be of great benefit for the people and the project (the docs answer some questions, but many more arise...) Regards, -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY -

[MACH doc] Usenix 1986

2000-08-26 Thread Thierry Laronde
nter ? Cu, -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre de l'APRIL - http://www.april.org/ 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY / Tel.-Fax : 33.(0)4.50.67.46.61 /home du SDF (Site Debian Francophone) : http://www.polynum.com/debian/

Re: Documents translation

2000-08-03 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:43:40PM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is this guy an existing one ? Or is it a kind of Nicolas Bourbaki or > > Shakespear ? Has one only to count the possible place where he "says"

Re: Documents translation

2000-08-03 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 02:43:40PM -0400, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Thierry Laronde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is this guy an existing one ? Or is it a kind of Nicolas Bourbaki or > > Shakespear ? Has one only to count the possible place where he "says"

Re: Documents translation

2000-08-03 Thread Thierry Laronde
sees... the code? Or is there only "one light", with long hairs, and "preaching sockets" ;) HURD == Hazing Unsuspicious Romantic Developers ? -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre de l'APRIL - http://www.april.org/ 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY / Tel.-Fax : 33.(0)4.50.67.46.61 /home du SDF (Site Debian Francophone) : http://www.polynum.com/debian/

Re: Documents translation

2000-08-02 Thread Thierry Laronde
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:23:13PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 07:17:59PM +0200, Thierry Laronde wrote: > > > > Stupid question : where can one find Thomas Bushnell's paper ? > > Towards a New Strategy of OS Design. > http://www.gnu.org/

Re: Documents translation

2000-08-02 Thread Thierry Laronde
MACH, there is a place where the old papers (CMU, Utah and OSF) are kept : ftp.lip6.fr/pub12/mach/ A+ -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre de l'APRIL - http://www.april.org/ 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY / Tel.-Fax : 33.(0)4.50.67.46.61 /home du SDF (Site Debian Francophone) : http://www.polynum.com/debian/

Re: Figure [was: Debian GNU/Hurd 0.3 -> 1.0]

2000-07-24 Thread Thierry Laronde
ms. One dumb question about these goals and GNU Mach : is there a kind of `POSIMACH', that is : is GNU Mach developed with the idea to allow straightforward porting of other OS servers (4.3BSD, OSF/1, HPUX, etc...) in order to allow them to run on top of GNU Mach ? Thanks, -- Thierry

top : existed for Utah Mach4

2000-07-23 Thread Thierry Laronde
arting point (Uhm ?), and one can find a bunch of utils for MACH4 here : ftp://flux.cs.utah.edu/flux/mach/user-mach4.tar.gz [244132 bytes] A+ -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre de l'APRIL - http://www.april.org/ 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY / Tel.-Fax : 33.(0)4.5

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd 0.3 -> 1.0

2000-07-23 Thread Thierry Laronde
t that I know almost nothing about MACH/HURD is perhaps a quality : If I want to know what the site is about, I need to find, read and keep up to date the docs ;) Cu in Bordeaux next year (for the 1st Debian Conference), -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Membre de l'APRIL - http://

Re: Mailing List traffic and membership

2000-07-15 Thread Thierry Laronde
a purely > academic interest for me. I think that, after the Zeroth Debian Conference and the speeches about the HURD, we are a couple of people interested in becoming HURD developers. The only problem is to find a way to start... and it will take some time. Regards, -- Thierry LARONDE <

[Debian Conf.] Richard Stallman conference about HURD

2000-06-06 Thread Thierry Laronde
Richard Stallman will give a conference about the HURD on Thursday, the 6th of July. So Thursday will be a HURD day. We are going to discuss in details the planning of the conference on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cu in Bordeaux, -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000

Zeroth Debian Conference : the HURD

2000-06-03 Thread Thierry Laronde
make some efforts in order to satisfy my personal curiosity...). For problems or questions, don't hesitate to get in touch with me. Cheers, -- Thierry LARONDE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10, rue du Bel Air, 74000 ANNECY / Tel.-Fax : 33.(0)4.50.67.46.61 website : http://www.polynum.com /home du SDF (Site Debian Francophone) : http://www.polynum.com/debian/