Re: Hacking the Hurd

[Patrick Strasser]

James Buchanan wrote:

> > What about a Linux Floppy Disk System/Distribution, you get nearly
> > everything working, including your CD-Rom and networking, and if you
> > mind you can include the installation tools (As mentioned in the
> > guides).
> I don't know of any that exist, and I was talking with my father
> about making a Hurd distribution ourselves, like RedHat et al. do
> Linux and others BSD etc. That would be a cool project to work on!
> I can make myself useful and do the downloading from GNU FTP
> site... :P

I mean _Mini_ distributions on a single or some 1.44 Mb floppy disks.
usually they can be easyly modified, so you can put on all the tools you
need to install the Hurd
<http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/index.shtml>


BTW you are new to the Hurd, isn't it? And you like to add good
documentation... I sugest you record every single step you do to get a
running Hurd system, starting at when you first heard of Hurd. It would
be useful for a kind of "debuging" the "newby gets the Hurd runnning
(/starts working on The Hurd)" documentation-guid thing.
just post it at the mailing list.

Patrick