Re: Installation media

2005-05-02 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 04:21:12PM +0200, Stevan Tiefert wrote: I was searching for a installation media for Debian GNU/Hurd. The web-site of Debian is old. All links I tried are directing my to nirwana. Does somebody knows where I can get the iso-images? They are at http://ftp.gnuab.org/pub

Installation media

2005-04-24 Thread Stevan Tiefert
Hello list, I was searching for a installation media for Debian GNU/Hurd. The web-site of Debian is old. All links I tried are directing my to nirwana. Does somebody knows where I can get the iso-images? With regards Stevan ___ Help-hurd mailing list

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Why is this on both lists? At Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:33:51 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ( ) wrote: Still, if it complained (not necessarily halted, a warning might be enough: you wouldn't be annoyed by a warning indicating that you're running your GNU/Linux system off a Hurd ext2 filesystem, would

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:32:20PM +0500, ANIL C JOHN wrote: I did rescue root=/dev/hdb3 when booted from CD to boot from that partition, it also stalled after booting for a while, and found the following messages before stall: 'rescue' most probably boots a Linux kernel (as also the messages

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-01 Thread Danilo Segan
Yesterday at 18:32, ANIL C. JOHN wrote: I did rescue root=/dev/hdb3 when booted from CD to boot from that partition, it also stalled after booting for a while, and found the following messages before stall:(by the way hurd is installed in partition /dev/hdb3 and mount on /gnu) This is

Wanted Hurd Installation CDs

2005-01-20 Thread ANIL C JOHN
dear friends, I wanted the hurd installation cds for installing andstudying hurd, and finally to write a translator. I thought of writing acvsfs translator, but came to know later that it has already beencreated. Will i be able to still work on modifying the recentlycreated cvsfs translator

Re: Best Hurd installation?

2004-07-17 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
what's the best way of installing a working Hurd system these days? The usual way, Philip's Debian GNU/Hurd CDs or just use the tarball. You can always upgrade later on with apt-get. i'd cross-compile. but i REALLY don't even want to even attempt to cross compile libc. Your fear about

Re: Best Hurd installation?

2004-07-17 Thread Marco Gerards
Rian Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what's the best way of installing a working Hurd system these days? best = latest binaries. i used to use the crosshurd package, but i remember someone saying on teh lists that it was getting outdated and also i read somewhere on debian that they were

Re: Best Hurd installation?

2004-07-17 Thread Rian Hunter
On Sat, 2004-07-17 at 06:59, Marco Gerards wrote: Rian Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: what's the best way of installing a working Hurd system these days? best = latest binaries. i used to use the crosshurd package, but i remember someone saying on teh lists that it was getting

Best Hurd installation?

2004-07-16 Thread Rian Hunter
what's the best way of installing a working Hurd system these days? best = latest binaries. i used to use the crosshurd package, but i remember someone saying on teh lists that it was getting outdated and also i read somewhere on debian that they were unifying the crosshurd to be a

Re: installation problems with the Hurd.

2004-02-19 Thread Marco Gerards
Rian Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I used the installation guide at http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install to install the hurd (i know it's based on the old guide). I followed all the instructions exactly, but when i boot into single-user mode to do ./native-install i get tons

installation problems with the Hurd.

2004-02-18 Thread Rian Hunter
Hi! I used the installation guide at http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install to install the hurd (i know it's based on the old guide). I followed all the instructions exactly, but when i boot into single-user mode to do ./native-install i get tons of pipe errors. A year ago i used

Re: Installation of contrib/Marcus/gnu.tar last year and this year

2003-11-01 Thread Robert Millan
Hi! You hit the --readonly bug again, which is already fixed. You're using an obsolete tarball that Marcus deprecated and moved to Attic dir time ago. If you want to install Debian GNU/Hurd, refer to the Debian GNU/Hurd install guide for latest instructions and references:

Re: Installation of contrib/Marcus/gnu.tar last year and this year

2003-10-30 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Has the grub boot-setup for Hurd changed as to the -s option in the kernel commandline and --readonly option in the ext2fs.static commandline? It hasn't. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Installation of contrib/Marcus/gnu.tar last year and this year

2003-10-29 Thread sigbj-st
: What I mean to say here is that last year I tried to install the 20.8.02 tar ball from ftp://alpha.gnu.org . I assume that there has not been any change in the MBrinkm tar.gz since august 2002.Otherwise I would assume that the date would have changed so that I would have noticed that. Last

Installation problem

2003-07-29 Thread AmirAli Lalji
all of the installation help available. I always get the # prompt with an error saying fsck couldnt make the partition readonly Another problem I am facing is my notebook works fine with Linux but whenever I boot HURD, my notebook's harddisk seems to run faster as if its gonna get fried

RE: Installation problem

2003-07-29 Thread asubedi
= Original Message From AmirAli Lalji [EMAIL PROTECTED] = [snip] I have checked everything e.g. (I deleted the -s switch before booting) and read almost all of the installation help available. I always get the # prompt with an error saying fsck couldnt make the partition readonly I

Installation problems

2003-06-27 Thread Guillaume
Hi I just want to install Hurd in dual boot with W$. I've done all the stage but quiet strangely, the system doesn't want to install I'm trying to install it from a CD and strangely the system doesnt see him. That's quite strange. Have u got any idea on how I can install the base system. I

Re: Installation

2003-06-08 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
. As for installation, please read the web page[1]. [1]: http://hurd.gnu.org/ ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: Installation

2003-06-08 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Where does the 2GB restriction come from, and are people working to remove it? It comes from the fact that we allocate the whole file-system into memory, and 80x86 can only map 2GB to memory. Ogi sent an alpha-patch that is a start for removing that limit (search the mailing-list archives

Re: Installation

2003-06-08 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Obviosly the person who wrote that code believed that 64-bit hardware would get common long before 10 GB disks ;-) Or that it was the easy way of getting a file-system working... :-) ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installation

2003-06-07 Thread Ognyan Kulev
Phil Reardon wrote: Where does the 2GB restriction come from, and are people working to remove it? I'm working on it[1]. Progress stalled for a month but now I'm back on the problem. If other commercial problems don't eat my time we'll have stable version after 1-2 weeks :-) (This is the

Installation

2003-06-06 Thread Phil Reardon
hello: I would like to install the hurd to find out what it is like. I will be putting it on a second drive slaved to my linux drive as a dual boot setup. Its a new 40 Gbyte IDE drive. What sort of partitions would you recommend, with what sizes. Phil Reardon

Re: Installation

2003-06-06 Thread M. Gerards
hello: I would like to install the hurd to find out what it is like. I will be putting it on a second drive slaved to my linux drive as a dual boot setup. Its a new 40 Gbyte IDE drive. What sort of partitions would you recommend, with what sizes. The Hurd only supports ext2 and ufs

Re: Installation

2003-06-06 Thread Phil Reardon
Where does the 2GB restriction come from, and are people working to remove it? Phil M. Gerards wrote: hello: I would like to install the hurd to find out what it is like. I will be putting it on a second drive slaved to my linux drive as a dual boot setup. Its a new 40 Gbyte IDE drive.

Re: Installation

2003-06-06 Thread Kurt B. Kaiser
On Fri, 06 Jun 2003 08:17:05 -0600, Phil Reardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where does the 2GB restriction come from, and are people working to remove it? http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd- install-guide.html Section 2. __ KBK

Re: Installation

2003-06-06 Thread Niels Möller
Phil Reardon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where does the 2GB restriction come from, and are people working to remove it? So work is done, I don't know the current status. Check the archives for the bug-hurd mailinglist. The root of the problem is that original version of the ufs and ext2 servers

Tarball installation problems

2003-01-10 Thread Tom Hart
Hi, all, I've been trying to install a new GNU/Hurd system using Marcus' latest tarbell and following Neal's installation guide. When I try to reboot into single-user mode (the first time) the system crashes and reboots while starting up the Hurd servers. The messages went by pretty quickly

Re: Tarball installation problems

2003-01-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I think this problem comes from the fact that the tarball gives me an empty /dev directory (except for the MAKEDEV script). =) Nope, thats not it. The console tries (this is the short version) to open a node in /dev, if it can. If it cannot then it tries /tmp/console, which it tries to

Re: Tarball installation problems

2003-01-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Nope, thats not it. The console tries (this is the short version) to open a node in /dev, if it can. ^^^ I mean can't. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: Tarball installation problems

2003-01-10 Thread Tom Hart
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: I think this problem comes from the fact that the tarball gives me an empty /dev directory (except for the MAKEDEV script). =) Nope, thats not it. The console tries (this is the short version) to open a node in /dev, if it can. If it cannot then it tries

Re: Tarball installation problems

2003-01-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I know it can't be IRQ sharing, since I can install using the J2 CD's (but the network doesn't work). I was shooting in the dark. It really sounded unlikly to be IRQ conflicts since you booted the thing. Thanks, Alfred. =) No problem. ___

Re: Tarball installation problems

2003-01-10 Thread Derek L Davies
Total wild guess here, hopefully someone can confirm/deny, but isn't there something about -readonly in the grub boot entries that isn't quite right in the doc? Sorry if this is just noise. Next time I encounter the problem I'm think of I'll pay more attention (last time it was 2AM). Derek --

Re: Tarball installation problems

2003-01-10 Thread Tom Hart
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: Total wild guess here, hopefully someone can confirm/deny, but isn't there something about -readonly in the grub boot entries that isn't quite right in the doc? Can you be a bit more specific? No option by that name exist, maybe you mean --read-only? What

Re: Tarball installation problems

2003-01-10 Thread James Morrison
--- Derek L Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Total wild guess here, hopefully someone can confirm/deny, but isn't there something about -readonly in the grub boot entries that isn't quite right in the doc? Sorry if this is just noise. Next time I encounter the problem I'm think of I'll pay

Re: Tarball installation problems

2003-01-10 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I had a --readonly option in my menu.lst file like this (to work around a bug that seems to have gone away): No wonder why it didn't boot. But I would consider this a minor bug, I think that init should be more graceful and not just reboot. It could issue a nice error message if it fails

archive installation boot failure

2002-11-05 Thread Bin Ren
Hi all, I've downloaded Neal's installation instruction file and did exactly as he described. I downloaded the latest snapshot and extrated it into /dev/hda9 and when I booted into Hurd, everything went well then was stuck at task started: [Multiboot-module: /lib/ld.so.1 .. 0x... 0x.. bytes

achive installation boot failure solved

2002-11-05 Thread Bin Ren
solved in IRC channel ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Thl Obeznaa [EMAIL PROTECTED] jevgrf: Va Qhgpu (vapy. Syrzvfu), jr unir rra ubeqr juvpu vf n tebhc bs jvyq navznyf be n ynetr tnat bs ybbgvat fbyqvref be 'oneonevnaf' (nf va ubeqra Uhaara gebxxra cyhaqreraq qbbe Rhebcn). Npghnyyl, gur Ratyvfu genafyngvba V sbhaq va n cbpxrg qvpgvbanel vf nyfb

Re: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-19 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
Guy Bormann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In Dutch (incl. Flemish), we have een horde which is a group of wild animals or a large gang of looting soldiers or 'barbarians' (as in horden Hunnen trokken plunderend door Europa). Actually, the English translation I found in a pocket dictionary is also

Re: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-18 Thread Guy Bormann
Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: The word exists in Swedish to, although probably less common than in Norwegian (the Quisling association was also new to me, but Swedish world war II history is also quite different from the Norwegian). My popular

Re: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-15 Thread Niels Möller
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes: I would expect (without proof) that the Norweigian hird does have some etymological connection with English herd. The word exists in Swedish to, although probably less common than in Norwegian (the Quisling association was also new to me, but

Re: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-15 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels Möller) writes: The word exists in Swedish to, although probably less common than in Norwegian (the Quisling association was also new to me, but Swedish world war II history is also quite different from the Norwegian). My popular ethymological handbook (Våra Ord,

Re: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request fromNorway

2002-10-15 Thread Jan Pawel Woronczak
On 15 Oct 2002, Niels [iso-8859-1] Mller wrote: ... My popular ethymological handbook (Vra Ord, Norstedts) says that hird means body guard. It comes from old English hir[e]d, via Icelandic literature and old Swedish hir, where it meant body guard or other court folks. Also the same word as

Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-14 Thread Grant Bowman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: sigbj-st [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 17:03:14 +0200 Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: InterChange (Hydra) SMTP v3.62 Sender: sigbj-st [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mr.Hart, I

Re: Hird - was Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-14 Thread Thomas Bushnell, BSG
The name Hurd was invented by me, as an alternate spelling for the English word herd. Hird is just another alternate spelling for the same word. By the normal rules of English orthography, they all have the same pronounciations. I would expect (without proof) that the Norweigian hird does

Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-11 Thread Ognyan Kulev
sigbj-st wrote: Which way do You recommend this to be done? 1. Through the base tar.ball described in http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english? I prefer this one. If you have CD you can use its Debian packages too. In case: where do I find the floppy-image

Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-11 Thread Grant Bowman
* Tom Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021010 13:10]: sigbj-st wrote: I am about to try an installation og the gnu-hurd with your mach mikro-kernel. In this respect I ask for the following: [...] [tarball or CD] You'll save yourself a lot of headache if you make your Debian box dual-boot

Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 09:36:51AM +0300, Ognyan Kulev wrote: Please use Hurd J2. I think it's the first CD set with (unreleased) Hurd 0.3 interfaces. This means that all present and future binaries will not work on earlier ( J2) Hurd installations. This is not what it means. Only the

concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-10 Thread sigbj-st
I am about to try an installation og the gnu-hurd with your mach mikro-kernel. In this respect I ask for the following: Which way do You recommend this to be done? 1. Through the base tar.ball described in http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english? In case: where do I

Re: concerning installation of hurd;request from Norway

2002-10-10 Thread Tom Hart
Sigbjorn, Here's my personal, just-my-opion, advice. sigbj-st wrote: I am about to try an installation og the gnu-hurd with your mach mikro-kernel. In this respect I ask for the following: Which way do You recommend this to be done? 1. Through the base tar.ball described in http

dir_index filesystem feature? (was: Re: installation error

2002-10-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 07:06:51PM -0400, Neal H. Walfield wrote: What version of the Hurd package did you use and which tarball? What version of e2progs? If you have not deleted it yet, could you send the output of `/sbin/tune2fs -l /dev/hda3' (assuming hda3 is the partition you were

Re: dir_index filesystem feature? (was: Re: installation error

2002-10-07 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 08:49:09PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: He has a spurious dir_index filesystem optio, which seems to be new in e2fsprogs 1.30. Anybody knows what that is, if we should implement this, or if we better write a bug report ASAP to disable this for -o hurd? It is

Re: installation error

2002-10-06 Thread Grant Bowman
He's pissed off so I looked into at least the versions. * Neal H. Walfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] [021006 16:50]: What version of the Hurd package did you use and which tarball? http://www.doublehp.org/hurd-log/install-log.txt shows gnu-20020816.tar.gz What version of e2progs? If you have not

Help Installation

2002-03-01 Thread Schmidt Pter
I have i486, 800+800+200 MB HDD developing platform. (Mono monitor, ethernet-card, CD, floppy) I want to install a stand-alone GNU/Hurd system on it. My questions are: * What is the difference between G1, H1, H2 and H3 CD ROM images at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/iso ? * What would

Re: Help Installation

2002-03-01 Thread Oystein Viggen
remember. You can find installation instructions at URL: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/install.html Oystein -- If it ain't broke, don't break it. ___ Help-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-hurd

Re: Help Installation

2002-03-01 Thread Marco Parrone
* What is the difference between G1, H1, H2 and H3 CD ROM images at ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/iso ? The H3 images are the newer (it is like a version number). * What would be more rapide method?: - Installing Debian GNU/Hurd - Installing GNU/Hurd from CD ROM image The CD

installation

2002-03-01 Thread Peter McAlpine
hi! I've tried the HURD a couple of times, and could never get past this. I've cross-installed, and have run the network config command. For some reason, though, I can ONLY connect to my nameserv. For example, if I ping them, I get a reply right away, no problem... BUT ... if I try to ping,

Fwd: Re: hurd installation probs

2001-12-17 Thread Bruno A . C . Ferreira
Subject: Re: hurd installation probs Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 08:48:35 -0200 From: Bruno A. C. Ferreira [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Adam Majer [EMAIL PROTECTED] i think there is also problems for Hurd in detecting my terminal. It is not creating /etc/ttys file, so commands like clear, nano etc

Re: hurd installation probs

2001-12-14 Thread Adam Majer
On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 02:53:56AM -0800, arun v wrote: I tried installing gnu hurd. After second reboot when i give ./native-install system hangs what can i do? Are you following the instructions? where does it hang? i think there is also problems for Hurd in detecting my

Help with GNU Hurd Installation

2001-07-06 Thread Narasimhamurthy Giridhar
Hi I need some help with installing GNU Hurd on my PC. Right now all I have on the PC is Windoze. I do have the installation guide for Debian GNU/Linux. What I want to know is : 1. Can I not make a partition and install Hurd in that ??? 2. Can I make a partion, put Debian GNU/Linux and then again

Re: Installation problem

2000-10-27 Thread Ali SHEIKH
tar -zxvpf --same-owner gnu-latest.tar.gz /gnu (i first: mount /dev/hdb3 /gnu) try: cd /gnu tar -zxvpf --same-owner PATH_TO/gnu-latest.tar.gz where PATH_TO is the path to the directory containing you gnu-latest.tar.gz file. -- To err is human, to moo bovine.

Re: First time installation

2000-06-11 Thread John Leuner
Grub will respond with two commands that you have to type, and then you're done. Note that that is a grammatical error; it actually runs the commands for you. Run "install ..." should really say Running. This is fixed in post 0.5.94 grub. Amazing what a semantic difference those 3

Re: First time installation

2000-06-10 Thread Neal H Walfield
Hello and welcome to the hurd! setup (hd0) Grub will respond with two commands that you have to type, and then you're done. Note that that is a grammatical error; it actually runs the commands for you. Run "install ..." should really say Running. This is fixed in post 0.5.94 grub.

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

2000-04-28 Thread Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
David R W Denny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: whereas for others like "info" I get the response "command not found". In your favorite Debian mirror, there should be a file /debian/dists/*/main/Contents-hurd-i386.gz which lists the files of all available packages. You could zgrep that for the

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

Re: Finishing Hurd installation?

2000-04-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 08:15:08AM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: I see... And 3.3.3.1 is actually the latest version usable with the hurd, then... Probably not, but I have not tried others (too much on the plate). So I suppose this is the same for other directories, like editors and

Re: Finishing Hurd installation?

2000-04-17 Thread Chris Lingard
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: 2) To install XFree86, do I only have to get the x-* packages in the unstable/main/binary-hurd-i386/X11 directory at some Debian ftp mirror and install them? Unfortunately, no. There are no X packages in the archive. Get libraries and clients from