On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 05:49:18AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote:
*** > > The best I could do at the moment would be to collect the various bits and > > pieces; grub, documentation etc and burn them onto a CD(s). I don't know > > how useful this would be. If people thought this would be useful I would > > be happy to take this on as a project - after the Debian 2.2 release. > > Proposal : > > You could burn CD containing : > - Debian GNU/Hurd .debs > - Hurd packages from alpha.gnu.org > - sources for Hurd-specific packages > (burning packages which sources exist for Debian GNU/Linux would be redundant) > - sources for Linux 2.4 (tones of drivers), KGI, ALSA, libGGI, GRUB etc. > - all other sources of interest for OS-developers > - documeniation for Hurd, Mach, OS and hardware programming > > This would contain everything Hurd hacker would need and very little overhead. > It probably could fit onto 1 CD. > I will start looking at this in a few days. I have kept a number of messages to this group which will be useful pointers. However I may have to come back to people for help in identifying exactly what is needed and to hold my hand while I do test installs. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz
