Re: A new install guide
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> Neal H Walfield writes:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have developed a new install guide as the easy guide has become
> > quite out of date. This one was written in the texinfo format so it is
>
> Hm. I've been working on some updates - do you want to check the
> current version and see how in-date it is? I think it's pretty
> current, but I get very little feedback about the easy guide, which
> makes this hard.
>
> > also a bit more portable.
>
> I don't know of anyone without an HTML reader...
>
> I've read your instructions, and I think they're probably less helpful
> for the novice user - in writing the easy guide, I tried to exaplain
> everything on a need to know basis - people installing the hurd for
> the first time aren't going to want to bother compiling their own GRUB
> image, I'd have thought.
>
> gnu.org have just been moving their servers around, so I've not
> updated teh gnu.org version. Hopefully they'll be installing OpenSSH
> RSN, which will make my life much easier for updating the gnu.org
> version.
>
> In the mean time, my own personal hurd box has been converted into my
> radiolan router, so I'm looking for a new machine to play with hurd on
> (I presume use of VMWare of hurd development is still deprecated, and
> freemware is unusable).
>
> Do people think the Easy Guide is worthwhile? I get very little but
> complaints about it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Matthew
>
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I found the Easy Guide to be very good and informative. It helped me get the
HURD installed. The only problem I had with it was the link to the GRUB image
was broken, but I just did some digging around on alpha.gnu.org and I figured
out where to get it.
Dan
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