Re: CD install instructions
Russell Senior <seniorr@aracnet.com> wrote:
> a) I was installing on a machine that already had Grub on it. The
> Grub boot floppy image is provided on the CD, but it would be nice
> if the appropriate grub commands were listed in the document as
> well, so they could be copied into the existing menu.lst file. My
> principal question was whether I need to boot with the "-s" on the
> kernel command line during the ./native-install procedures.
It is all explained in Neal's installation guide.
> b) I read elsewhere (??) that the serverboot.gz business was
> deprecated, but the recommended alternative doesn't seem to work.
> What is up with that?
What does "doesn't seem to work" mean?
> c) Is it necessary or desirable to get all four iso's or can you just
> get the base system installed and networking running with the first
> iso and then sync up from a network server? If the latter, what
> should go in /etc/apt/sources.list?
You only need the first CD. Use these lines:
deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main
deb ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian unstable main
> d) I had tried last week with the first iso of the H4 set, and managed
> to get networking going pretty easily with /hurd/pfinet, but this
> time (maybe I've forgotten what I did before) with J1 I don't seem
> to have DNS name resolution working. There is no
> /etc/resolv.conf. What should I do?
Create it. :)
> e) Also, advice on getting ssh to work.
See the mailing list archive. It has been discussed a while ago.
Cheers,
GNU/Wolfgang
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