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Re: strange behaviour of HURD (was: MAKEDEV kills everything)

Arnuld,
I myself am brand new to GNU, so I know nothing regarding your issue. That said, if you go to, http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2007/06/threads.html and scroll down towards the bottom of the page you will find some of my posts. In them I posted that I had tryed several different methods of installing GNU. All to no avail (you might see some similar issues as you are having). I believe that I had a hardware issue, because I switched to another computer with a newer hard drive and I was able to get GNU installed via Debian's crosshurd.
I understand that you have a restrictive Internet accuses, but just last night (09 July 07) I was able to go from formating a new hard drive to logging in as root in 'bout 30 minutes. Very little of that time was I truly on line. Something to consider. 

Cheers
Teague

arnuld wrote:

On 7/10/07, arnuld <geek.arnuld@gmail.com> wrote:
well i tried again  with "./MAKEDEV hd0s4" only and same error:

# ./MAKEDEV  hd0s4
Killed
# ls /etc
Killed
# reboot
Killed
#

:-(

any idea gentlemen ?


HECK, i had to hard-boot, HURD could not reboot. at next reboot, i
entered into single-user mode and did this:

# export TERM=mach
# ./native-install

and i see for the 1st time it asked me about Timezone. i entered (5)
for Asia and then it said, press Enter to see all timezones (within
Asia), i did  and get "broken pipe" message :-(

anyway, i entered "Calcutta" as i am in IST (GMT + 5.5). then it did
usual configuration kind of things, same it did before asking me for
Timezone. then it *hung* up at this point:

"packages marked [*] produce lot of output: use 'less' or 'more' !

and then i *hung-in* there forever. cursor was blinking but nothing
else. as i wa sin single-user mode "C-c" did not work. i had to
hard-boot :-(

now when i boot into HURD, whether single-user or not, it reboots
automatically :-(. i do not understand this behaviour, i am booting
into HURD and as soon as it finishes with booting work (i mean system
startup messages) it reboots automatically :-(

what is wrong now ?



(EDIT: i was thinking of downloading the K14 CD-1 but for that i have
to wait for 2-6 months as my ISP has monopoly in my area and it is
giving me a download speed of 1.2 kbps (with 90 disconnections per
day) for a 256 kbps bandwidth connection :-(   i expect some
improvement over next 6 months. lots of Indians are selling Linux CDs
but no one for CDs of HURD :-(
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