Indeed I was able to do a complete installation with it.
I have just run apt in ssh, and got: paul@jacko:~/hurd25janv$ ssh paul@localhost -p 2222 @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ @ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @ @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY! Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)! It is also possible that a host key has just been changed. The fingerprint for the ECDSA key sent by the remote host is SHA256:4ZFwXRndpFymdOKgXgCct8mA4hpwYUEVYNyZ4t+/8/M. Please contact your system administrator. Add correct host key in /home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message. Offending ECDSA key in /home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts:1 remove with: ssh-keygen -f "/home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts" -R "[localhost]:2222" ECDSA host key for [localhost]:2222 has changed and you have requested strict checking. Host key verification failed. [I guess this is normal because the server have changed from last time it was accepted. So I did the:] paul@jacko:~/hurd25janv$ ssh-keygen -f "/home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts" -R "[localhost]:2222" # Host [localhost]:2222 found: line 1 /home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts updated. Original contents retained as /home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts.old paul@jacko:~/hurd25janv$ ssh paul@localhost -p 2222 The authenticity of host '[localhost]:2222 ([127.0.0.1]:2222)' can't be established. ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:4ZFwXRndpFymdOKgXgCct8mA4hpwYUEVYNyZ4t+/8/M. Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes Warning: Permanently added '[localhost]:2222' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts. paul@localhost's password: GNU debian 0.9 GNU-Mach 1.8+git20201129-486/Hurd-0.9 i686-AT386 The programs included with the Debian GNU/Hurd system are free software; the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright. Debian GNU/Hurd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. paul@debian:~$ ls paul@debian:~$ pwd /home/paul paul@debian:~$ ls paul@debian:~$ ls -lh total 0 paul@debian:~$ su Password: root@debian:/home/paul# apt update Hit:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease Hit:2 http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports unreleased InRelease Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done All packages are up to date. W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/source/Sources' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease' does not seem to provide it (sources.list entry misspelt?) root@debian:/home/paul# And now I am asking myself is it normal "Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/source/Sources' as repository 'http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease' does not seem to provide it"?
