Re: Long story, might be interesting :)
Thanks for your extensive reply :)
Quoting Neal H Walfield <neal@cs.uml.edu>:
>
> > Since I had already been using GRUB for a
long time, I only
> needed
> > to make some changes to my menu.lst to boot. I tried
to, but no go. It
> > wouldn\'t recognize my partition at boot time. Then,
I copied the boot
> files
> > (gnumach.gz and serverboot.gz) to my SCSI disk, and
booted from there.
> Now,
> > everything was fine :). No problems completing the
install with
> > ./native-install.
>
> I have no clue what is wrong with your set up. This
is the first time
> that this has been reported and you have given no
error messages.
This is what it reports (of course the partition type is
set to e2fs (x82 or x83, not sure).
<ERROR>
Booting command-list
Root (hd1,0)
Filesystem type unknown, partition type 0x54
kernel /hurd/gnumach.gz root=hd1s1
Error 17: Cannot mount selected partition
</ERROR>
>
> > Next thing I did was installing apt so I could
dist-upgrade to the latest
> > packages. But, for some reason there\'s a very very
very very very (did i
> say
> > very?) old apt in ftp.debian.org , which is unusable
(it only supports
> i386,
> > not hurd-i386). Somebody (thanks to that person) at
> > #hurd/irc.openprojects.net mentioned
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian
> ,
> > and I had a look. What I found there was a quite
recent version of apt,
> that
> > supported hurd-i386. I installed apt, added
> > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian to my
sources.list and dist-upgraded.
>
> Again, if you had read a recent install guide you
would have known this.
>
Where can I find a recent install guide ?
> > After I worked out some dependency problems and
edited /etc/nsswitch.conf
> > (to remove the db entries), I had a fully functional
GNU/Hurd system.
>
> What did you have to do.
>
Because almost all network related programs would
otherwise crash, report unresolvable symbols, or give
strange bus errors. I found this solution somewhere in
the mailing list archive, I think it was suggested by
Marcus Brinkmann.
> > Okay, time for some questions:
> >
> > - Where can I find the latest XFree4 Debian/HURD
packages (Lots of places
> > are reporting they exist, but I can\'t find them)?
>
> Again, a latest install guide should do it or, try:
> http://debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg/~ogi/hurd/
>
Okay, visited that page. And I still don\'t have a recent
install guide, nor Xfree4. Can you please be more
specific, I really can\'t find it. (And yes, I\'m trying).
> What places are reporting this and not pointing at an
install guide or
> the mailing list?
>
Various hurd fansites.
> > - I\'d like to join development. I\'m a young
professional programmer with
> > knowledge of (and experience with) basic, pascal,
php, sql, c and c++.
> How
> > do I join development? The first thing I\'d like to
do is recompile some
> > packages for the Hurd, so I can use all programs
with Debian/Hurd as I
> use
> > with Debian/Linux. However, I\'m not a Debian
developer (yet). Where do I
> > start? :)
>
> There is nothing to join. Write some code and submit
it. Report bugs.
> Compile packages for which we do not yet have
binaries. etc.
>
Where should I send them to?
> > - When trying to install debconf it exits with an
error 10. How do I find
> > out where and how it crashes? Without debconf, it is
impossible to
> install
> > lynx, which is quite important if you don\'t have X
and want to view some
> > webpages.
>
> I am not sure about this. Try being more verbose in
your bug reports.
>
Okay, here\'s the error message:
<ERROR>
Reading Package Lists...
Building Dependency Tree...
Sorry, debconf is already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and
0 not upgraded.
2 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up debconf (0.4.06) ...
dpkg: error processing debconf (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit
status 10
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of lynx:
lynx depends on debconf; however:
Package debconf is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing lynx (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
debconf
lynx
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
</ERROR>
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