Re: Networking
Yes Philip. I know. The images you write of are precisely the images I
used to install as much of the Hurd as I have done so far.
The point I was trying to make is that there are no drivers disks
(drivers-[1-4].bin), so the GNU/Linux 'installer' cannot do any
networking either - it can't load the drivers for any network cards
either - hence not networking there either.
(If I'd had the drivers, and if the installer knew of the option, I
wouldn't have had to write the 11 disks required to transfer
baseHurd.tgz - I could have just said "they're available through NFS at
the following address ...", or "collect the necessary files by FTP/HTTP
from the following address ...", or something like this. This has long
been a feature of the Debian Linux installer).
Regards,
Dave McDonald
Philip Charles wrote:
>
> As much as I hate to loose a potential sale of CDs .....
>
> The floppy images for a base install are on the CD. 16 images in all.
> ../current/images-144/ rescue*, root*, base14*
>
> Phil.
>
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2001, Dave McDonald wrote:
>
> > Neal H Walfield wrote:
> > > # settrans -acp /f3-main /hurd/isofs $HOME/images/f3-main.iso
> >
> > Well ... I'd love to. But then I'd have to get the images onto the Hurd
> > machine ... but then I don't have networking. Catch-22 I think. What do
> > you propose? I guess I could establish a serial connection - but what
> > file tranfer software would I run ... or then again there's floppies
> > (but I'm a cheapskate - I think I'd rather buy the CD's).
> >
> > I can see that you presume I'm also running another O/S on this machine,
> > but this is not the case.
> >
> > Still, you've got me thinking. I imagine that if I actually boot from a
> > Debian Linux rescue/root/drivers disk set, I could get networking
> > working, and then I could transfer the files without needing to reserve
> > HDD space for another O/S. Kinda attractive to a cheapskate like me - it
> > would still be cheaper to get networking happenning with what I
> > currently already have.
> >
> > I guess at this point, I'd suggest to Philip Charles that including a
> > couple of extra floppies in the boot floppy set would be fantastic. But
> > I think Philip has to balance this with legitimate concerns about the
> > size of the images and the number of floppies needed.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dave McDonald
> >
> >
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