Re: Trying to get a basic installation working

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Initially bounced at GNU servers, re-sent.

On 27/06/17 14:23, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Mark Morgan Lloyd, on mar. 27 juin 2017 08:06:59 +0000, wrote:
>> The CD image I was using was
>>
>> $ cksum *iso
>> 4089521537 678834176 cd-1.iso
>>
>> $ sha1sum *iso
>> 9239135037b664a08d355e2f7ece69bfa7576f07  cd-1.iso
>
> This looks like the snapshot from january. There's the 2017 release 
from may on
> http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd

Thanks, for the last few hours I've been running the netinst from 
~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/weekly-1/ which is chugging along 
in semi-graphical mode (text-mode bombed with something about "unable to 
create /run/screen").

Installation completed after about 10 hours, during most of which time 
the CD LED was flickering at about 20 Hz. It barfed at something coming 
from the mirror and there's no working network, boot message about  ifup 
/dev/eth0  failing.

Since the base network files etc. are there, as an experiment I told it 
to install openssh-server, this fetched the packages from CD at the 
expected speed. I have absolutely no reason to think that the 
off-the-shelf PC I was using has significant problems, and I'm fairly 
confident in the boot media and drives.

I'm afraid that there might be something broken in the installation 
kernel etc., and even though I'm interested I'm going to find it very 
hard indeed to justify much more time on this :-(

CC not necessary, I'm (still) subscribed.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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