Re: woody Debian Installer plans
Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>
> Well, the documents are short on details and full of linuxisms, but this was
> probably to be expected.
>
Its still very much in the planning stage.
> It seems that a lot of those "modules" would need to be rewritten for the
> Hurd ("mounting" for example works different on the Hurd than under linux).
> It would be nice if you can keep this in mind.
>
> Also, it always talks about lilo/silo. It would be nice if we could enter
> the 21. century and use GRUB. This also helps the Hurd of course, because it
> is the only boot loader we can use. (GRUB is under active development, and
> it is a great bootloader, with menus, file system support etc etc).
>
> Because everything is supposed to be modular, I expect to be able to disable
> all those nifty linux-only modules when starting to work on Hurd boot disks,
> so I don't have to say much about those.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcus
>
The way modules will work is that they should only be called (or loaded)
if needed, so its not a matter of disabling any modules, just only
calling the modules you need, this is the key to shrinking the installer
to 1 boot disk (with everything else being fetched as required). There
may need to be hurd specific alternatives to some modules i guess.
How important is it for the Hurd to have a native installer?
Im sure the Hurd users would prefer to not have to depend on "foreign"
kernels, but is it practical ?
The easiest path would be to install hurd packages from a linux based
installer, i assume most utilities that the installer would use would
need to be ported to the hurd, to do a native hurd installer. Some
utilities the new installer will likely be based on are busybox,
libdetect, libparted, slang.
Glenn
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