> I read "The idiot's guide to installing Hurd on a linux box.".
:) Is it helpful? > Unfortuantely I couldn't find the file mentioned (gnu-0.2.tar.gz) on > alpha.gnu.org or on ftp.gnu.org or ftp.debian.org. Perhaps I'm blind. ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/gnu-0.2/gnu-0.2.tar.gz > Second, is there any way to install HURD without a linux box. I've > currently got an empty partition sitting on my Win95 machine. I used > tomsrtbt (an excellent minilinux) to mke2fs. I got a GRUB boot disk from Did you make it -o hurd? otherwise hurd won't work. > alpha.gnu.org.../hurd/boot (I did manage to get hurd running form a > floppy, but from there, I was a bit lost. :) Yeah - that was just GRUB.... You need to copy the tar across (as the idiot's guide says) to have a working hurd system. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/
