Re: Installing Debian-Hurd from a redhat machine ?

[Jim Franklin <jfranklin@etworld.com>]

Hi Kate,
  Use the large tarball method.  Start here.

http://www.pick.ucam.org/~mcv21/hurd.html
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-doc

Welcome to the HURD
Jim


"John P . Looney" wrote:
> 
>  Hi..
> 
>     I tried to install Debian Hurd a few months ago, on a free partition on
> my Redhat Linux box. However, it didn't quite work, as all the install
> tools are still very debian centric (i tried install apt etc. - to no
> avail).
> 
>  I'd like to try again. Is it possible to install it without a preinstalled
> Debian Linux machine ? As in, are there boot floppies or bootable ISO9660
> images ? Has the hurd gotten as far as to support SMP ?
> 
> Kate
> 
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