hi folks, i tried to install the hurd and finally succeeded to some point (now i don't know what to do with it!), but you might be interested in my experience, so here it goes: - i did all of this under a virtualbox and i first installed a very minimal current linux (testing), from there i ran crosshurd - i changed /etc/crosshurd/preferences and pinned util-linux from unstable over * from unreleased over * from unstable. perhaps this only means util-linux in unreleased is outdated and should be removed? perhaps we need some script that monitors versions in unreleased an unstable and notifies someone under certain conditions? - i also changed /etc/crosshurd/packages/common and added initscripts and insserv, because util-linux now depends on initscripts which in turn complain if insserv isn't installed. since insserv isn't required, i also added a line to the native-isntall script rigth after the unpacking of the reuqired packages to do the same for insserv. i haven't looked too closely at the dependencies around this (beacuse it's nauseating), but i am not sure if there isn't a serious bug there somewhere: initscripts calls insserv in its setup script, so it should pre-depend on it, and if it does depend on it, doesn't that make insserv required as well? is that really the way to go? - after native-install i get told some stuff about how to run the console, which doesn't seem to work, perhaps that is outdated? - otherwise it does install with these mods cu robert -- Robert Lemmen http://www.semistable.com
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