Re: Easy Install tweaks
On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 12:08:31AM -0400, Nathan Valentine wrote:
> >mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hdb1
>
> Should be "mke2fs -O none -o hurd /dev/hdb1". The ext2 problem
> has been discussed on this list before, but the docs have
> not been updated
The -O none is only necessary if you are either using an old hurd or an
old grub, neither you should. It's worth pointing it out and explaining the
situation, so people can decide if they need to use -O none or not.
> In "Fifth - The single-user boot":
>
> > kernel=/boot/gnumach root=hd1s1 -s
> and
> > module=/boot/serverboot
>
> I had to append a ".gz" to the end of gnumach and serverboot.
I hope you are not looking at a recent version of the easy guide.
Otherwise I hope that Matthew will fix this soon :)
> Also, native-install reported error messages when installing
> quite a few of the debs.
That's okay, as long as the second run is okay. Didn't you read
the screen? It even waits for a key press:
# Debian set up.
echo
echo Now I configure Debian packages. I\'ll do this twice, so all
echo packages get configured properly. You\'ll notice some warnings
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
echo and errors in the first run, that\'s okay.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
echo
echo Please press enter now to start configuration.
read x
> In "Sixth - Make devices, and more configuration"
>
> It appears as tho native-install also kicks off a script
> to do the MAKEDEVs. I don't know if I have to explicitly
> issue some more MAKEDEV's for my drives or not. The docs
> could be a little more clear in regards to this step.
Okay, here is the explanation anyway: Native-install creates
the standard devs and the one for the root partition if it
can figure it out (it will let you know if it didn't).
If you add a swap partition to /etc/fstab, you need to make
the device file. If you add it to /boot/servers.boot, you don't.
If you want to mount partitions, you need to create the device file.
> Lastly, I got impatient during the install and before doing
> the series of settrans commands to setup the network I tried
> to "ping 192.168.2.1". I then had to reboot because ping
> was repeatedly reporting "Network unreachable" errors and
> Ctrl-C would not kill the ping thus I lost control of my shell.
Did you reboot after running native-install, as it tells you to do?
echo You should reboot the system now by entering "reboot", so all
echo translators come into place.
If you didn't, this might be a reason why Ctrl-C didn't work.
But maybe there is another bug, I will make some tests.
> Ctrl-Alt-Del would not work for reboot, but perhaps the Hurd
> does not have that feature.
Yep, that's not available.
> One thing that I think would be nice to link off of the Easy Guide
> is a "walkthrough" like what OpenBSD has on their page. It's just
> a script of the stdout during the install, but it helps a newbie
> get an idea of what is "normal" looking and what is not.
Yes, that's a good idea.
> Anyway...that's my quick flyby. Here's to the weekend getting here
> quickly so I can maybe get started hacking. :)
Let us know if you have further comments or problems. Welcome to the Hurd!
> Nathan Valentine - nrvale0@uky.edu
> University of Kentucky Distributed Computing Systems Lab
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