Re: My experience with Hurd
> First, I installed Hurd using the tarball and then tried to update it -
> that didn't work, but I couldn't figure out why.
No error messages?
> So I decided to use cross-install. That didn't work either since I was
> running the release Debian 2.2, not woody. Once I got woody installed,
> cross-install went a lot better.
That should not matter. Again, any error messages?
> The problem I had with cross-install was that a bunch of packages that
> libc0.2 depended on were not fetched and installed. These are libnss-db
> libdb2-util. Somehow I think there might be more, but those are the only
> ones in my notes, so that must be it.
>
> Next up were the dependancy problems in native-install. The dpkg line
> that configures libc0.2 also needs to have libnss-db, libdb2, libdb2-util
> and hurd on it since these are all dependancies. Libc0.2 doesn't
> configure without them, and nothing else configures since everything
> depends on libc0.2. At least, that's my limited understanding of it.
>
> This leads to a few errors later on about packages already configured, but
> eventually leads to a very functional Hurd installation.
Hmm, Marcus, can you take a look at this.
Thanks,
-Neal
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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu
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