Re: HURD install confusion

[Michael Banck]

On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 10:38:14PM +0530, arnuld wrote:
> >On 7/8/07, Arguri <larguri_2006@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
> >It says that for the installation mentioned on
> >http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install needs another OS. It
> >explicitely says that the current installer for the Debian/Hurd
> >Distribution is not very nice. This is true, but you can still use one
> >of the two options: Cross-install or CD install.
> 
> which one is better in these contexts:
> 
> 1.) which one will give me an updated system ?

Using crosshurd (from a Debian or Ubuntu GNU/Linux system) will give you
an uptodate system; Using the Install CDs will give you the snapshot of
the system when the CDs were released.

> 2.) which one is less error prone ?

Usually the CDs, but some problems with the K14 CDs have been reported
with respect to the Mach console login in multi-user mode.

Try to run "syncfs -c /" after you ran native-install; alternatively,
recreate /dev/tty1 from single-user mode.
 
> BTW, what ./native-install will do ?

It'll setup the passive translators and install/configure the Debian
packages.  It's a shell script, so look inside for further details.
 

Michael