> Did yahi (Yet Another Hurd Install) and this worked fine. BUT settrans -g > /dev/hd2 had to be used to enable the cdrom drive to open. The clumsy fix > was to recreate /dev/hd2 before remounting the CD. Please be more precise in exactly what you saw. settrans -ga (note the a) should be all that is required, and should not leave /dev/hd2 unusable.