K16 CD Install woes - RFH
Crowd,
Just out of curiosity (I must admit), I am trying to get acquainted with
the GNU/HURD system.
Therefore, I naturally tried to follow the various instructions found
here and there on how to achieve that goal.
Unfortunately, I have tumbled upon a certain number of problems.. I
tried to find solutions by myself but I am a bit stuck at this point.
I first tried the cross install method (such as described at
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install) - but besides the fact it
is a bit cumbersome (having to install a gnu/linux system first JUST to
do some partitioning and expand a tarball) - the boot itself wouldn't
complete (I can briefly see a 'trap - Panic' during the initial HURD
boot - before the system reboots)..
Ok.. Since I was not very confident with this route, I decided I'd try
the debian/hurd K16 CD.. I went ahead, downloaded the minimal CD and
started reading the instructions.
First tried using the web page instruction at
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd - which instructs me to create
a grub floppy.. I fetched the 'grub-disk' package (on another debian
system) but this is now a dummy package and it triggers the installation
of grub-rescue-pc (and I am not sure the GRUB images carried by this
package are what I really want)... Anyway, booting the grub 'rescue'
floppy puts me on a bare grub prompt..
So I looked at the 'cookbook' on the K16 CD.. Which makes reference to a
(I am guessing - especially doctored) GRUB image with the finely
tailored grub scripts.. However, it makes mention to a '/install'
directory on the CD-ROM which.. I can't find anywhere..
Apparently, it is quite important to be able to get hold of that item
since this is what the installation process seems to rely on to perform
its first few reboots (I assume the grub MBR will eventually get
installed on the hard drive - pointing to the correct and final grub
script).
My apologies if this is a bit out of touch.. I am fairly new to hurd
(and to any microkernel based system for that matter) - so I might have
misunderstood something while reading the various instruction manuals.
But basically.. yeah.. any help would be appreciated ! (no urgency -
again - this is out of curiosity)..
--Ivan
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