Re: Hurd advocacy? Bootable (Knoppix-like) CD?
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, Greg Buchholz wrote:
> Lately, I've been wondering how hard it would be to create a
> bootable Hurd CD (a la Knoppix) that people could try without having to
> install to their harddrive. Are there any known problems with
> grub/gnumach/hurd which would prevent this? The biggest problems I can
> see would be the lack of DHCP to get the network up without too much
> trouble, and trying to autodetect the video card for X.
It is beyond my capabilities. A live CD would depend on having a native
installer for GNU with a hurdish ramdisk etc. Nice idea though.
Phil.
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