Hi, I wanted to post the steps I was able to use and the problems I ran into in doing an upgrade of my Hurd system to libc0.3/Hurd 0.3. The upgrade guide Marcus Brinkmann wrote, available at:
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/extra-files/hurd-upgrade.txt covers the procedure very well, but I ran into a couple of hitches. Here's what I did, using the "Easy" method (the '#' marks are the root command prompt): - Install Hurd from J1 CDs. I also installed initial.sh, developer.sh, and gui.sh, and got the network connection running - Download these .deb packages via ftp: - hurd_20020804-1_hurd-i386.deb - libc0.3_2.2.5-13_hurd-i386.deb - dpkg_1.10.4_hurd-i386.deb - dselect_1.10.4_hurd-i386.deb - libgcc1_3.2-0pre3_hurd-i386.deb - libstdc++5_3.2-0pre3_hurd-i386.deb - gcc-3.2-base_3.2-0pre3_hurd-i386.deb from ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian/ or the pools on ftp.debian.org - Boot into Hurd 0.2 system which is not to be upgraded, a.k.a. the rescue system, using your GRUB boot floppy, etc. - Mount the 0.2 system to be upgraded on (for example) /mnt/disk0 via # settrans -a /mnt/disk0 /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd?s? - Copy the packages to a temp dir on the system to be upgraded via # cp package-name_version_hurd-i386.deb /mnt/disk0/root/tmp - # cd /mnt/disk0 - Follow the directions for running ./dpkg-hurd --remove and ./dpkg-hurd --unpack from Marcus's upgrade guide. - # cd (to get back to /root) - # settrans -fg /mnt/disk0 - Reboot into the newly upgraded system using your GRUB boot floppy, etc. (See Booting: below for more info on booting the upgraded system) - # dpkg --configure hurd libc0.3 dpkg - dpkg fails to configure due to dependency on dselect, not installed. hurd fails to configure due to /var/backups/infodir.bak missing - # dpkg -i dselect_1.10.4_hurd-i386.deb, but this fails due to unmet dependencies on libgcc1 and libstdc++5 - # dpkg -i libgcc1_3.2-0pre3_hurd-i386.deb - # dpkg -i libstdc++5_3.2-0pre3_hurd-i386.deb, but this fails due to unmet dependency on gcc-3.2-base - # dpkg -i gcc-3.2-base_3.2-0pre3_hurd-i386.deb - # dpkg -i libstdc++5_3.2-0pre3_hurd-i386.deb - # dpkg -i dselect_1.10.4_hurd-i386.deb - # dpkg --configure dpkg (after this command is executed, the file /var/backups/infodir.bak still doesn't exist) - # dpkg --configure hurd (but this works fine now *shrug*) And then your upgrade is done. You can reboot into your newly upgraded system following the info in --> Booting: The (temporary) boot problem Marcus mentions in his doc affected me. The workaround I used was to edit the menu.lst file on my GRUB boot floppy and add a new entry. For this entry, I simply used the commands given by Neal Walfield in his excellent Installation Guide at: http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html in section 5. You need the "root" command, the "kernel" command, and the two "module" commands. Change the command beginning "module /hurd/ext2fs.static" to read "module /hurd/ext2fs.static --readonly" followed by all the rest of the arguments and the root filesystem will fsck and mount properly on boot-up (at least it did for me :^) At this point, the "ping" binary is missing because /bin/ping was a part of the old hurd package that was removed during the upgrade. I downloaded the inetutils_20010817_hurd-i386.deb package, ran "dpkg-deb -x" to extract the files, then copied the ping binary to /usr/bin/ping. This repaired the ping problem for me. Please e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any questions. Thanks to Marcus and all the other developers for such an excellent and fun system :^) Clemmitt Sigler
