Re: CD install instructions
>>>>> "Wolfgang" == Wolfgang Jährling <wolfgang@pro-linux.de> writes:
Wolfgang> Russell Senior <seniorr@aracnet.com> wrote:
Russell> a) I was installing on a machine that already had Grub on it.
Russell> The Grub boot floppy image is provided on the CD, but it
Russell> would be nice if the appropriate grub commands were listed in
Russell> the document as well, so they could be copied into the
Russell> existing menu.lst file. My principal question was whether I
Russell> need to boot with the "-s" on the kernel command line during
Russell> the ./native-install procedures.
Wolfgang> It is all explained in Neal's installation guide.
Not obviously in the context of the J1 CD install, which apparently
does a lot of what is explained in Neal's instructions under the covers.
For example, I never downloaded gnu-latest.tar.gz as described in
Neal's "4. Cross-Install". Just from this Hurd newbie's point of
view, it is hard to keep track of what is relevant.
Russell> b) I read elsewhere (??) that the serverboot.gz business was
Russell> deprecated, but the recommended alternative doesn't seem to
Russell> work. What is up with that?
Wolfgang> What does "doesn't seem to work" mean?
Hmm. Looks like I was missing some of the stuff from the "module
/hurd/ext2fs.static" line. Not sure where I got what I had before,
but the lines from Neal's instructions worked. Thank you for
cattle-prodding me in the right direction (shock and all).
Russell> c) Is it necessary or desirable to get all four iso's or can
Russell> you just get the base system installed and networking running
Russell> with the first iso and then sync up from a network server?
Russell> If the latter, what should go in /etc/apt/sources.list?
Wolfgang> You only need the first CD. Use these lines:
Wolfgang> deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable main
Wolfgang> deb ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/debian unstable main
Ah, thank you.
Russell> d) I had tried last week with the first iso of the H4 set,
Russell> and managed to get networking going pretty easily with
Russell> /hurd/pfinet, but this time (maybe I've forgotten what I did
Russell> before) with J1 I don't seem to have DNS name resolution
Russell> working. There is no /etc/resolv.conf. What should I do?
Wolfgang> Create it. :)
Hey, that worked too! ;-) I wonder where it came from the first time.
Russell> e) Also, advice on getting ssh to work.
Wolfgang> See the mailing list archive. It has been discussed a while
Wolfgang> ago.
I'll look.
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