Re: hurd progress and bugs
Am Mit, 26 Jul 2000 10:13:05 Juli-Manel Merino Vidal Sie:
> Hi all,
>
> I've installed hurd three times in the last months, and everytime I've
> done this, I've found the same "bugs" in each installation. I think
> that known bugs should be corrected before implementing new things and
> before the system grows. A bigger system is harder to debug...
> For example, that weird bug that corrupts the terminal after the
> installation,
You are supposed to reboot!
(but we would accepot a fix anyway. It's just not easy, and really
can be avoided by a reboot)
> or that limitation that doesn't allows hurd to be
> installed in a partition bigger than 1 GB.
This will not be done before the next release, but after.
There are some interface changes for that in a different
branch in CVS.
> Also, I think that hurd needs boot disks to be installed without
> needing any other os. If I could learn something about this, I could
> try to help.
Please check the mailing list for "fdisk" and "libstore" and "disk
geometry".
Thanks,
Marcus
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