Re: Hurd advocacy? Bootable (Knoppix-like) CD?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:51:47PM +0100, Greg Buchholz wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Philip Charles wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hmmm... I'm probably out of my league here, but I'll ask anyway.
> Why would a native install or a ramdisk be necessary? I was just thinking
> of writing a GRUB boot image to the CD and have it boot the hurd system
> installed on the rest of the CD. Does the hurd write some
> initialization/configuration info to the filesystem? And I thought the
> main problem in having a native install was the lack of a hurdish fdisk.
> Maybe I'll get some time this weekend to take a look at it.
We have GNU Parted.
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Robert Millan
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