Re: hurd native install
I agree with BlowGlass, someone should really do something to
"simplify" the installation procedure.. even though the general
solutions to the problems Tomasz Wegrzanowski mentioned, also are
essential (but, they are completely different from the installation
problems for ordinary user).
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
...
> Other problem is that not many people here ever did boot-disks
> for any system (I mean : CDs with installer etc.).
> And trying to do one costs time of 500 hundred reboots
> and at least 20 new CDs.
If the hurd not yet capabable of installing itselft, how about a
linuxbootdisk which installs everything from arbitrary media? Something
like the debian-linux installationprocedure, perhaps?
/Elias
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Elias Jarlebring http://www.bitsmart.com/eliasj <eliasj@bitsmart.com>
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 05:51:52PM +0200, BlowGlass wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > i am new to the hurd, but the fact that there's no native install for the
> > hurd is something i really dislike, so my questions are :
> >
> > * is anybody working on a native install for the hurd
> > * if not, are there any reasons it should be very hard to do
>
> There are.
> Some of them :
>
> (
> (
> (
> Hurd needs multiboot-compliant bootloader,
> =>
> Device from which Hurd is loaded must be known from BIOS
> )
> &
> (
> CDs and ZIPs aren't usually known from BIOS
> )
> )
> &
> (
> >20 Floppies aren't good way of installing anything
> )
> )
> =>
> (
> Due to hardware problems we can't install Hurd from anything
> but other OS.
> )
>
> Other problem is that not many people here ever did boot-disks
> for any system (I mean : CDs with installer etc.).
> And trying to do one costs time of 500 hundred reboots
> and at least 20 new CDs.
>
> > as i will have some free time in the summer, i will first install the hurd
> > on all of my machines (a 486with 16MB RAM, a 486 with 32MB RAM and scsi
> > and one athlon) and then begin to do some work for the project if disired.
>
>
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