On Wed, Aug 20, 2003 at 04:51:47PM +0100, Greg Buchholz wrote: > On Thu, 21 Aug 2003, Philip Charles wrote: > > It is beyond my capabilities. A live CD would depend on having a native > > installer for GNU with a hurdish ramdisk etc. Nice idea though. > > Hmmm... I'm probably out of my league here, but I'll ask anyway. > Why would a native install or a ramdisk be necessary? I was just thinking > of writing a GRUB boot image to the CD and have it boot the hurd system > installed on the rest of the CD. Does the hurd write some > initialization/configuration info to the filesystem? And I thought the > main problem in having a native install was the lack of a hurdish fdisk. > Maybe I'll get some time this weekend to take a look at it.
We have GNU Parted. -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
