Re: Installing the Hurd without preinstalling Linux
> The way to do this is boot something from a floppy (or over the ethernet if
> you can do that) that you can use to set up the disk. There are
> multitudinous things ot choose from. The boot floppies from your linux
> distribution of choice will almost certainly suffice to get you a root
> shell on which you can run fdisk and mke2fs and so forth. There is at
> least one "linux on a single floppy" distribution whose sole purpose is to
> fit useful things you would need to diddle your disk or fetch things over
> the network on a bootable floppy. http://www.toms.net/rb/ is one.
Thank you for the hint. I'll try it and see what happens.
-Farid.
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