Re: OT: The Hurd

[Richard Heycock <rgh@roughage.com.au>]

At the risk of sounding smug, I managed to install the Hurd onto an Asus
L3 without too much trouble. I followed the "Installing the Hurd"
document by Neal Walfield and it all went well. I think (it was a while
ago) I did a little "ad libbing" but not much. It can be done!

I like the document though, I do recall having some of those issues and
thinking why!?!?!? Unfortunately X windows doesn't work on my machine as
it needs agpart which apparently doesn't work. If it wasn't for this I
reckon I'd actually use it!

rgh


On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 05:14, Kent West wrote:
> David Fokkema wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 03:29:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>David Fokkema wrote:
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >>>On Wed, May 28, 2003 at 02:20:00PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>>>I just installed the Hurd on a Gateway E-1800. It's a bare minimum 
> >>>>install, with lots of broken-ness.
> >>>>
> >>>>And they say installing Debian GNU/Linux is hard. Debian GNU/Linux is a 
> >>>>piece of cake. If anyone ever complains about how hard it is to install 
> >>>>Debian again, point 'em to the Hurd.
> >>>>
> >>>>But I'm having fun . . .   :-)
> >>>>  
> >>>>
> >>>>        
> >>>>
> >>>Maybe you could keep us posted on how useable the Hurd is?
> >>>
> >>>TIA,
> >>>
> >>>David
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>      
> >>>
> >>Well, as I mentioned, there's a lot of broken-ness at the moment. But 
> >>I'm overcoming some sort of hurdle every half-hour to an hour or so, so 
> >>it's got that "work-work-work-REWARD!" routine going for it.
> >>
> >>I'm keeping notes at 
> >>http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html. 
> >>Be aware they are very "random". Some time later I may clean them up.
> >>    
> >>
> 
> I've wiped the drive and started over, and started a new, much cleaner 
> document. It can be found at 
> http://faculty.acu.edu/~westk/A_Beginners_Second_Attempt_to_Install_the_Hurd.html
> 
> Unfortunately, I've run into problems again, so I still can't report 
> that the Hurd is usable. Give me time . . . .
> 
> -- 
> Kent
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