Re: Woody release?
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:44:03AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote:
> > HDD partitioning tools
>
> Neal Walfield has them together, I think. They are currently worked in
> upstream.
Great.
> > cdrom part of apt working
>
> That's basically a bug in the Hurd, which I have mostly fixed. I will take
> another look at it next weekend.
Good news.
> > Using a Hurd ramdisk for the installation. (Nice, but not vital)
>
> That involves porting the new Debian installer to get done properly, and
> probably CD boot support in Grub?
This could involve a lot of work. Rather beyond me at this stage. I
notice that Progeny uses Grub, but as far as I can see it does not have CD
support.
> > Working df
>
> df does work. Always specify a path, like: "df /mnt /mnt2". Applications
> need to be fixed to use that syntax instead parsing "df".
Ahh, is that the trick.
>
> > Fully functional dselect?
>
> What's not working in dselect?
I found it aborting when it hit contrib, so I threw everything into the
main file system. It was aborting consistently on my test system.
My gut feeling is that a woody Hurd release would be too soon, but I
expect a release the next time round. A testing release with woody would
be great.
Phil.
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