Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-11 Thread Cowboy
>> From: David R W Denny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Ramakrishnan M wrote: >> > Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: >> > > >> > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd-0009/msg00443.html >> > >> > Thanks for the wonderful post. It was very much informative. But in my >> > case,

Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread Marius Vollmer
Ramakrishnan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So does that mean, I have to first install GNU/Linux on vmware first > and then try installing GNU/Hurd? I think the easiest way is to make *two* virtual machines, one for GNU/Linux and one for the Hurd. Make one virtual harddisk for each of them. Co

Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread David R W Denny
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Gordon Matzigkeit wrote: > > David R W Denny writes: > The main issues when installing under vmware are the same as when > installing on a machine that has no operating system on it at all. > Philip Charles was working on some Linux-based Debian boot floppies > that would

Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread Radovan Garabik
Hi all interested in running hurd under vmware I have got a vmware disk from Eric Hanchrow, and after some playing with it I have put it (with slightly more packages installed) at ftp://susy.dnp.fmph.uniba.sk/hurd You should just download disks, modify hurd.cfg to correct paths to disk files an

Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread Eric Hanchrow
> "Ramakrishnan" == Ramakrishnan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ramakrishnan> It will be excellent if GNU/Hurd can be installed on Ramakrishnan> vmware. Had anyone tried this? If so, what are the Ramakrishnan> steps? You can download the VMware virtual disk, along with a few othe

Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread Gordon Matzigkeit
> David R W Denny writes: DRWD> My suspicion is, you install Hurd on its own Virtual HD in DRWD> vmware, but not _within_ linux in vmware if you get my DRWD> drift. In that sense you do not need linux, However you _would_ DRWD> need some sort of unix in order to download and compile any D

Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > The wonderful post wasn't mine. It was by Eric Hanchrow > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. I just dug it up. :) s/post/link Is it ok now? :-) > Why not install potato base, make a big hurd partition and > then install hurd. A potato base install will not ta

Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread David R W Denny
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Ramakrishnan M wrote: > Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd-0009/msg00443.html > > Thanks for the wonderful post. It was very much informative. But in my case, I > am going to install vmware on Windows. So does that mean, I have to f

Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
hi, > "Ramakrishnan" == Ramakrishnan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ramakrishnan> Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: >> http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd-0009/msg00443.html Ramakrishnan> Thanks for the wonderful post. It was very much The wonderful post wasn't mine. It was by

Re: GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Prabhu Ramachandran wrote: > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd-0009/msg00443.html Thanks for the wonderful post. It was very much informative. But in my case, I am going to install vmware on Windows. So does that mean, I have to first install GNU/Linux on vmware first and then try ins

GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread Prabhu Ramachandran
hi, > "Ramakrishnan" == Ramakrishnan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ramakrishnan> install *anything* on my office machine.:-( Is it Ramakrishnan> possible to install Hurd on VMware? I have never Ramakrishnan> tried VMware before, so I am not sure of its Read this post by Eric Ha

GNU/Hurd on vmware

2000-10-09 Thread Ramakrishnan M
Hello I have in my office, a Windows NT machine. I don't really have access to a GNU/Linux box in my workplace, and my Debian box is in my home,which is ~600KM from my workplace. :-( I am not supposed to install *anything* on my office machine.:-( Is it possible to install Hurd on VMware? I h