I had the same problem, I assumed that it was because I was on a laptop. Is your system a laptop as well? Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote:
Hello all, I'm trying the hurd, got the tar.gz and downloaded the first CD, I want to try X on it but ./MAKEDEV kbd is failing saying that it doesn't know the 'kbd' device name, I think it is a MAKEDEV problem, I less'ed it and didn't find mention of kbd, maybe a MAKEDEV upgrade will do, where can I find the latest version? []s!