Hello! After some time and a lot of people trying it, looks like either the problems on running GNU/Hurd in Bochs are now fixed or they were a particular curse of my system :>
As it's working fine, I sent a new image for Bochs and its on their sourceforge site now. It has installed and configured network, X and Marcus' console server. See the mini-FAQ for details. Note that the console server only works with ncursesw driver, not with vga/kbd combo. there are some problems with X too. It will eventualy be added to the diskimage site: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/diskimages.html For now, you can get it from: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580 mini-FAQ follows (it's in the tarball also): GNU pre0.3-J2 for Bochs mini-FAQ -------------------------------- - What do you mean "GNU", the GNU Hurd? Yes and no. See http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.en.html#q1-2 - Disk line for .bochsrc? for Bochs CVS version: ata0-master: type=disk, path="gnu.img", cylinders=1024, heads=16, spt=63 for older versions: diskc: file="gnu.img", cyl=1024, heads=16, spt=63 - My PATH and prompt are weird, and X clients fail the profile is not loaded properly, do it manualy with ". /etc/profile". - How can i change terminals? The Mach console doesn't have multi-terminal capability, and the usual solution is the "screen" program, but.. ..the new console server is installed and configured with 6 terminals. beware it hasn't been properly tested. You can launch it with the ncursesw driver: console -d ncursesw /dev/vcs and then switching via C-w 1 (or 2, 3, ...). you can exit it with C-w x see http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2002/debian-hurd-200209/msg00054.html for more details IMPORTANT: note that X doesn't work well while running the console server. - Does X work? Somewhat: - DRI and speedo modules won't load so they're deactivated. - The VESA driver also failed so VGA is being used. - more than 8 bpp won't work. - for some weird reason the mouse server in /dev/mouse doesn't respond, so the mouse is inoperative. - GNU is still an unstable OS which makes X crash often on it. To reconfigure it: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 then apply a patch to fix the mouse section: patch /etc/X11/XF86config-4 /root/XF86Config-4.diff Installed clients are blackbox window manager and rxvt terminal emulator. - Is network configured? Yes, to change parameters use: settrans -apfg /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet [options to pfinet] (see /hurd/pfinet --help for details) - How do i mount stuff? settrans -afg <node> /hurd/<translator> <options to translator> Where node is your mount point and translator is the filesystem server. Add -p to settrans if you want it to stay over reboots (fstab-like) - Anything neat to try? yes! instead of "su" use "sush", a more flexible version that manages multiple UIDs. you can also play with userspace filesystems for NFS and FTP in /hurd/{nfs,ftpfs} that you can run as user, debug with GDB, etc. - More questions? Read the FAQ (http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.en.html) for a general overview on the GNU system. -- Robert Millan "5 years from now everyone will be running free GNU on their 200 MIPS, 64M SPARCstation-5" Andrew S. Tanenbaum, 30 Jan 1992 _______________________________________________ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd
