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Re: Porting D-I to the Hurd



"Vikram Vincent" <vincentvikram@gmail.com> writes:

>    Hello!
>    A new installer for the Hurd called the LX1 was created by a group from
>    the University of Calicut, Kerala, India and we would like to now work
>    on getting D-I to work for the Hurd. What are the basic/essential parts
>    of the D-I that we need to look at?
>    (Also Michael Banck got Debootstrap to work on hurd-i386
>    http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-hurd@lists.debian.org/msg18733.html
>    )
>    Any pointers will be useful. Thanks in advance.

It's a good start step to get debootstrap to work. Next step is to get
the whole d-i to build and boot ;-).

Colin has done some work and he has sent the diff to the mailing list
long time ago. Would be great if you might take a look at his changes
and use them as a starting point.

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