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An easy-to-install Hurd distribution
From: |
Robert J. Chassell |
Subject: |
An easy-to-install Hurd distribution |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:17:20 -0500 (EST) |
James Buchanan wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I am batting around the idea of a Hurd distribution, like Red Hat and
> all the rest do their own Linux distributions.
This is a wonderful plan. Please go for it!
I will install the Hurd if it comes as a good, not-too-hard-to-install
distribution.
I would very much appreciate it if you would improve the current
Debian GNU/Hurd distribution such that I can do the following:
1. Specify the appropriate deb line in my
/etc/apt/sources.list
file on a Pentium 100 machine currently running Debian GNU/Linux,
including X Windows, on 23 Mbytes of RAM.
2. Let me run the following on that machine under Debian GNU/Linux,
apt-get install task-hurd
and download via my existing telephone dial up no more than 20 or
30 megabytes of .deb files that then install themselves.
2a. perhaps, in the process, offer to repartition my hard disk if
needed, with good explanations and reasonable suggestions, both
for the current drive in the machine (850 Mb) and for a different,
larger drive (5.2 Gb). You can assume that the current Debian
GNU/Linux distribution on this machine takes up 550Mb.
3. Reboot the machine with a choice at the boot prompt of running
either Linux or Hurd.
4. Boot successfully when I choose Hurd, and incorporate into the Hurd
configuration files the the PPP and other such kernel-independent
configuration information that the current Debian GNU/Linux already
has so I don't have to retype the information.
5. After boot into Debian GNU/Hurd, offer
make gnu-hurd-apps-from-potato-CD-sources
which will take the sources for Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato)
that I have on three CDs and build them into GNU/Hurd applications.
Compute ahead of time approximately how long the build will take
(on this machine, possibly several days).
(I am unable to download much via telephone, so I must buildg most
of the system from deb-src source files. Also, I have the sources
to Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (potato) on three CDs.)
6. Also offer
make gnu-hurd-debs-from-potato-CD-sources
so I can then collect all the .deb files needed for a complete
Debian GNU/Hurd distribution and burn them onto three CDs like the
current Debian GNU/Linux distribution and give them to my sister's
husband, so he can install and run the Hurd on one of his machines.
Thank you.
--
Robert J. Chassell bob@rattlesnake.com
Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com
- X Windows for Hurd, James Buchanan, 2000/11/28
- Re: X Windows for Hurd, Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/11/29
- An easy-to-install Hurd distribution,
Robert J. Chassell <=
- Re: An easy-to-install Hurd distribution, Robert Marlow, 2000/11/29
- Re: An easy-to-install Hurd distribution, Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/11/29
- Re: An easy-to-install Hurd distribution, Robert J. Chassell, 2000/11/30
- Re: An easy-to-install Hurd distribution, Neal H Walfield, 2000/11/30
- Re: An easy-to-install Hurd distribution, Jeff Bailey, 2000/11/30
- Re: An easy-to-install Hurd distribution, Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/11/30
- Re: An easy-to-install Hurd distribution, Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/11/30
- Re: An easy-to-install Hurd distribution, Robert J. Chassell, 2000/11/30
- Re: An easy-to-install Hurd distribution, Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/11/30
Re: X Windows for Hurd, James Buchanan, 2000/11/29