Re: Hurd F1 ISO and booting
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001, Henning Riedel wrote:
> You got the point, the installation seems to be ok, except some minor things
> that might be a little confusing:
> 1.) Looking for the basehurd.tgz on the CD. There are a lot of subdirs on
> the
> CD's. I might be gotten a little to comfortable by Linux-installations
> from
> the main distributor's like Suse.., and I didn't install a Debian/Linux
> for a
> while. Having ./contrib ./main ... aso, you might have a basedir
> somewhere
> in the install-script saying, there is the basehurd.tgz. Just a little
> confusing,
> but finally found the right one.
> 2.) After having installed the basehurd.tgz the menu doesn't offer the next
> thing
> like rebooting, it stays at installing the Hurd base-system (is there
> still another
> step, or could I reboot?)
> 3.) There might be a offer to install GRUB after installing the basehurd?
> Some
> users might not have the GRUB already installed, they probably have
> Lilo
> or even others, that are not multiboot-capable.
> Don't take that wrong, I was a little bit in fury, and I won't be put to be
> a whiner
> or like that. This should be a suggestion for the next CD's if you agree.
>
Thanks for this. I am not planning to revise the initial boot for F2, but
there will be a major revision of this part of the Hurd CD in the not too
distant future and comments like this will be a very useful guide.
Phil.
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