Re: an important task
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 11:05:24PM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 05:04:11PM -0400, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Apr 1999, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know whether anyone is working on this yet or not but...
> > >
> > > It is pretty important that we make it possible for people to install
> > > Debian GNU/Hurd without having to first intall GNU/Linux.
> > >
> > > Is someone working on this? Is there a volunteer willing to take it
> > > on?
> >
> > I believe the plan is to compile a base set of the HURD that can be
> > installed via tar zxvfp gnu-xxxxxx.tar.gz onto an ext2 partition. Once
> > the system is expanded onto it, the user can boot the HURD from there
> > (with a GRUB floppy) and then use the HURD's native packaging system
> > (dpkg) to handle the rest of the installation.
>
> This is the very first step. There is no way around a good set of Debian's
> boot floppies for the Hurd. Of course, the work I have put into
> cross-install will be directly useful. Indeed, for the first time
> cross-install could be embedded into the boot floppies. Focus is probably to
> get a tiny Hurd system from boot floppies, AFAIK.
I don't know what the plans for these boot floppies are, but I was just
thinking... there's really no reason we couldn't use linux on the boot
floppies if that makes it easier.
Just throwing the idea out,
Ian
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