install report

2003-04-10 Thread Bob Ham
Hi all, I just came from installing the hurd and I thought I'd report my progress. I formatted some partitions, one for /, /boot, /var and /home, mounted them under linux and untarred gnu-20020816.tar.gz. I booted single user and ran native-install without any problems, rebooted, set the transla

Re: Install report

2000-12-09 Thread Philip Charles
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > Where is the best place to get the cross-install scripts? > > http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/extra-files is the "official source" > > But note that this is currently out of date. I must update it, and produce a > new tar file. I always manag

Re: Install report

2000-12-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 10:30:34PM +, Philip Charles wrote: > > > > So, all's now installed and (relatively) happy. However, there were > > another couple of things. On boot, I get an error (I believe from some > > part of the kernel): > > "hd03: bad access: block=28, count=2, blockend=30, n

Re: Install report

2000-12-08 Thread Philip Charles
Hi, Thanks for this. On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Bob Ham wrote: > Last night I completed an install using the hurd-D1.iso cd image. I > did, however, have some problems. The method that I was to mount the > image file on a loop device and use the cross-install, dpkg-hurd and > native-install sc

Install report

2000-12-08 Thread Bob Ham
Hi there Last night I completed an install using the hurd-D1.iso cd image. I did, however, have some problems. The method that I was to mount the image file on a loop device and use the cross-install, dpkg-hurd and native-install scripts that I downloaded a couple of months ago. All was fine un

Re: New user install report

2000-03-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 09:09:41AM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:02:39AM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > > > * I needed to remove modules/gconv from the list of optional packages > > >to install in cross-install

Re: New user install report

2000-03-02 Thread Jason Henry Parker
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:02:39AM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > > * I needed to remove modules/gconv from the list of optional packages > >to install in cross-install; > Well, cross-install was indeed badly out of date, I will upload a new >

Re: New user install report

2000-03-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 07:02:39AM +1000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > > * HURD filesystems needed to be created with -O none to avoid making >a filesystem with 2.2 enhancements (I think -O none should really >be the default when specifying -o...); The latest packages and grub should hand

New user install report

2000-03-02 Thread Jason Henry Parker
All, I wanted to get this email off before I forgot the problems I encountered during installation. I followed Matthew Vernon's installation guide. * Matthew's guide is excellent, but it needs to be updated to reflect the new --download option to cross-install. I didn't discover it until

Re: Install report: had to downgrade e2fsprogs

1999-08-26 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 05:24:22PM +0300, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote: > I installed the Hurd from the Debian packages last night. I encountered > the "no root node" problem reported earlier; downgrading Linux e2fsprogs > to the slink version fixed this. Otherwise it seems OK. Yup, but luckily

Install report: had to downgrade e2fsprogs

1999-08-21 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
I installed the Hurd from the Debian packages last night. I encountered the "no root node" problem reported earlier; downgrading Linux e2fsprogs to the slink version fixed this. Otherwise it seems OK. (And BTW, grub is just wonderful!) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http:/