On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:44:03AM +0000, Philip Charles wrote: > > HDD partitioning tools > > Neal Walfield has them together, I think. They are currently worked in > upstream.
Great. > > cdrom part of apt working > > That's basically a bug in the Hurd, which I have mostly fixed. I will take > another look at it next weekend. Good news. > > Using a Hurd ramdisk for the installation. (Nice, but not vital) > > That involves porting the new Debian installer to get done properly, and > probably CD boot support in Grub? This could involve a lot of work. Rather beyond me at this stage. I notice that Progeny uses Grub, but as far as I can see it does not have CD support. > > Working df > > df does work. Always specify a path, like: "df /mnt /mnt2". Applications > need to be fixed to use that syntax instead parsing "df". Ahh, is that the trick. > > > Fully functional dselect? > > What's not working in dselect? I found it aborting when it hit contrib, so I threw everything into the main file system. It was aborting consistently on my test system. My gut feeling is that a woody Hurd release would be too soon, but I expect a release the next time round. A testing release with woody would be great. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025 267 9420. I sell GNU/Linux CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
