Re: new hurd package and mutt
On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 10:58:06PM +0100, Chris Lingard wrote:
> Perfection Marcus. Down loaded 19991025. It is loaded to a 990Mb partition.
> Set it up with three extra 990Mb partitions that were settransed to /home, /Debs
> and /Source, and also put the swap space in. Loaded about 20 binary deb files.
> Rebooted several times. No corruptions, all partitions clean.
Great, thanks for doing all these tests. I can sleep better now, knowing
that our archives are back in a sane state again. Some people still see
breakage (Brent for example), but it should be reasonable sane now.
> Got the source for the latest version of bash and build it. Re booted again,
> all OK. It also can see my Zip drive; what is with this plug and play?
I even see my parport drive here, and you can use mtools to access dos
partitions!
> Will now do battle to build the hurd. Thanks earlier advise. Got autoconf,
> automake, dpkg stuff and some documentation on Debian.
Fine. Just ask if something is unclear or doesn't work at first try.
Marcus
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