easier install ideas

[Jeff Davies <jeff@llandre.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hurd installation is not currently something for the atechnical.
Perhaps to show people that hurd actually works, a demolinux style CD
could be made. 
The demolinux cd - (see www.demolinux.org) ignores the hard disk, and just
runs off CD. A demo CD might contain just hurd, some tools and utils like vi 
et al, (perhaps gcc as well would be useful - then people could compile using 
it too), and XFree86 and Mozilla. (and an easy ppp interface like kppp or 
gnome-ppp).

This is (1) a million times easier than making a easier to install kit like 
Mandrake GNU/Linux and (2) Removes the problem of changing from LILO to GRUB
for many Linux users, and removes even greater impendiments to Win32 users.

It would be a bit like that QNX demo disk (except it would be a boot CD not 
floppy).

Jeff Davies.