Thanks

2000-04-18 Thread manju
Hey ! Thanks Jim and all for the useful information you provided ( URLs ), Manju

Re: disabling DMA transfer for HDD

2000-04-18 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Wed, Apr 19, 2000 at 12:32:49AM +0200, Jakub Skopal wrote: > I'm trying to install HURD for the first time from the Debian > distribution, but I feel this question is not connected with the > Debiannes I need to tell HURD (mach?) not to use DMA transfers for > HDD, cause it is proven bugg

disabling DMA transfer for HDD

2000-04-18 Thread Jakub Skopal
Hi, I'm trying to install HURD for the first time from the Debian distribution, but I feel this question is not connected with the Debiannes I need to tell HURD (mach?) not to use DMA transfers for HDD, cause it is proven buggy on my hardware. After booting, the first attempt to access /boot

Re: Documentors/Documentation

2000-04-18 Thread Jeff Bailey
On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 07:15:26PM +0200, Jan Atle Ramsli wrote: > Jeff Bailey was mentioned - is he the 'Doc'-man? Not exactly. I'm trying to collect documentation to form sort of a "Hurd-HOWTO" site. My biggest interest is for helping do-it-yourselfers, but I'll take just about any documen

Documentors/Documentation

2000-04-18 Thread Jan Atle Ramsli
Who is in charge of documentation, please? When I have the complete 'package' and start adding comments and write down things, I need someone who can tell me: 1. If my understanding is right, and what is wrong with it. 2. If there is some existing documentation on the subject 3.

URLs for new developers 20000418

2000-04-18 Thread Jim Franklin
Hi folks, Here are some info urls: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/ http://www.gnu.org/software/devel.html http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/learning-more-about-hurd.h

Re: recent events

2000-04-18 Thread Jack J. Woehr
"David W. DeTinne" wrote: > Has anybody else noticed the increase in the amount of emails this list is >receiving?I am seeing > an increase in traffic on the freebsd-questions list also. It is almost like linux >is not cool > anymore andpeople are looking for the next "underground OS". That's

recent events

2000-04-18 Thread David W. DeTinne
Has anybody else noticed the increase in the amount of emails this list is receiving?   I am seeing an increase in traffic on the freebsd-questions list also. It is almost like linux is not cool anymore and people are looking for the next "underground OS".     

Re: Want to be part of development team !

2000-04-18 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hi, On Tue, Apr 18, 2000 at 05:46:52PM +0530, manju wrote: > Hey all, > I want to be a part of GNU/Hurd development team. Will somebody gimme > some information about the following queries: > What should I do to join hurd team ? If you contribute then you are a part of the team. There is

Re: post installation/newbie..Hurd on intel pIII

2000-04-18 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
David R W Denny wrote: > Hi chaps and thanks so far - my particular problem is that I can get some > things to execute just from a shell command, whereas for others like "info" I > get the response "command not found". Info is in doc/info_XXX.deb, where XXX is the version. Other programs are in o

Want to be part of development team !

2000-04-18 Thread manju
Hey all, I want to be a part of GNU/Hurd development team. Will somebody gimme some information about the following queries: What should I do to join hurd team ? What do I need to know to join hurd team ? What else are the ways to contact other hurd developers ? ( other than mailing lists?

Re: post installation/newbie..Hurd on intel pIII

2000-04-18 Thread David R W Denny
On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2000 at 05:50:07PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > We try to provide you with a binary distribution for convenient > > installation, so you don't need to compile everything yourself (unless your > > name is Jeff Bailey :). If there's