Rewriting the installation instructions
Hi,
I think it's time to for a major overhaul of the existing installation
instructions. The reason is, I believe, a fragementation of methods
used to install Debian GNU/Hurd.
To that end, I propose to partition the instructions in five independent
parts:
1. Preparation of the host system
2. Installation of the base system from the host system
3. Boot setup
4. Booting/running the Hurd
5. Native-install/post-install
ad 1.
- Dom0 setup for Xen
- qemu installation
- qemu grub disk image download/installation
- nothing in case of native booting
ad 2.
- K* CD
- crosshurd from either GNU/Linux or GNU/Hurd
- base tarball extraction
- debootstrap from either GNU/Linux or GNU/Hurd
- nothing (in case of using the qemu image)
ad 3.
- Grub setup for native booting
- Grub setup for qemu booting without a Grub boot image
- Xen hurd modules/gnumach-xen installation
- nothing (in case of Qemu with Grub boot image)
ad 4.
- Qemu
- Xen
- nothing (in case of native booting)
ad 5.
- native-install
- nothing (in case of Qemu image)
- nothing (in case of debootstrap)
is that about right? Maybe 1, 3 and 4 can be dealt with together for
Xen/Qemu/native. Once we settled on the above, somebody could flesh
everything out using the existing documentation, maybe using a temporary
or new area in the wiki.
Michael
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