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Re: hurd installation via iso



On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 12:30:23PM -0700, Ron Graves wrote:
> I have been watching this list for a couple of months now.  I read "Free as in 
> Freedom," and like eating raw eggs after watching "Rocky" so many years ago, 
> I got hooked on the pure GNU thing.
> Last night I jumped.  Installed a lil hd:
[...]
> it says to reboot in -m (the guide says -s again?)
> i go with the guide
> repeat it all (including those god forsaken module lines)
> #./native-install
> produces same output

'same output as the last time'? Or 'some output'?

> #nano /etc/fstab
> it can't find home directory

did you reboot after running native-install for the second time? I'd do
that.

> if I run ./native-install it will kill the fstab.
> move on to
> #settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a localhostsip -g 
> gatewaysip -m mask
> it says no such dir /hurd/pfinet

dunno about that.

> Is the iso the thing?  

Never tried the ISO thing.

> Do I set up a chainloader type thing in grub or what?  

I'm not quite sure I understand your problem. Does the SuSE grub eat up
your modules line or what? In that case, you could try installing the
grub from Debian, which seems to work fine. You'll lose your nice
graphical boot menu though I guess.


Michael

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