Hi all, I just installed debian hurd yesterday for the first time and with some patience got it to work properly using the install guide. One little snag I had was that the version of e2fsprogs that comes with the install was too old (or at leasst that's what it told me). I created the partition from linux with 'mke2fs -o hurd /dev/sdb1' as instructed in the install guide with e2fsprogs v1.29. I installed the base system from the gnu-latest.tar.gz that was available.
All seemed to go well during the install until I tried to boot into multi-user mode, where fsck would die, at first telling me to upgrade my tools. So after a bit of work I built e2fsprogs 1.29 under hurd, uninstalled the old package and reinstalled the new one and everything worked fine. I still get an error message when first running e2fsck about an unknown return code and not knowing if the partition is mounted (sorry, I don't have the exact text...I was going to try and hurt this bug down myself once I get the kernel building). The next problem came when I tried to reboot. It seems that the options used in /libexec/rc (/sbin/fsck --preen --writable) are a bit odd. I don't see either --preen or --writable as available options in the manpage, so I changed them to -p and it all seemed to work ok and booted into multi-user mode fine. After this, everything worked pretty well, but it still seems like there's a lot of work to be done (which is why I'm trying out gnumach/hurd, since I wasn't to be able to actually contribute something :) but seems at the verge of being actually usable. It was a pleasant suprize and I'm sure you'll be getting more questions and code from me soon. burton
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