Re: newbie problem

[James Morrison <rocketmail_com@rocketmail.com>]

 What kind of hardware do you have?

--- Jaap Karssenberg <j.g.karssenberg@student.utwente.nl> wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'm a newbie trying to install the hurd, i read the install guide and the
> mail 
> archives of the last months and I have the idea that i understand them.
> 
> My general problem is that the native-install script hangs at a certain
> point, 
> it gives no error message and it really hangs (i let it alone for a night and
> 
> in the morning it was the same). The first time I run it it hangs at the 
> lines: "
>  settrans ttypo /hurd/term /dev/ttypo
>  pty-slave /dev/ptypo
>  settrans -cg ptypp "
> I tried several releases and both the old (serverboot.gz)  and new  (module 
> /hurd/ext2fs.static ...) boot sequence. Still the problem is very consequent.
> 
> When i reboot and run the script again -just being stubborn- it starts 
> installing packages but most of the time hangs at the ext2 progs package.
> 
> At this moment i use the 20020523 tarbal on a 500 mb partition. There occurs 
> one error at boot time saying that ext2fs.static encountered a bad block or 
> something of the like, but this does not seem to bug the system (root is 
> mounted correctly etc).
> Also i looked into the irq's and according to my redhat install there is one 
> shared irq between usb and the mother bord chipset. Though i reckon hurd 
> wouldn't boot at all if this was a problem - also i dont use any usb devices.
> 
> I would be very happy if someone could hint me towards a sollution,
> 
> Jaap Karssenberg
> 
> 
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James Morrison
   University of Waterloo
   Computer Science - Digital Hardware
   2A co-op
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