Hello Guy-Fleury, On Mon, Dec 29, 2024 at 08:39:16PM +0200, Guy-Fleury Iteriteka wrote: > Le 29 décembre 2024 20:28:22 GMT+02:00, "João" a écrit : > > Has anyone tried and succeeded installing hurd through crosshurd recently? > > I never tried crosshurd from debian but i usually use fravio's scripts which > are simple to use (at least for me) > <https://github.com/flavioc/cross-hurd>
I can see the name clash. But I think that Flávio's cross-hurd and Debian's crosshurd package are meant to do different things. cross-hurd (aka Flávio's scripts) sets up a crossbuild toolchain and crosscompiles hurd sources to make an image to run on a virtual machine. I am interested in running the hurd on real hardware (and not so much interested in compiling from source if binary packages already exist in Debian), could these scripts be adapted for such use case? Debian's crosshurd installs a hurd system from Debian repositories on a partition accessible from linux. Apart from the CD install images, crosshurd is the only method I'm aware of to install Debian Hurd on real hardware. And since CD readers are no longer standard on current computers, and USB is not yet supported in the hurd, I thought that crosshurd would be a major tool to install the hurd (although most people seem to be using virtual machines these days). I acknowledge Samuel's email, and will give version 1.7.62 a try when it is uploaded. > Also someone recentely on debian hurd ML did it > <https://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2024/12/msg00003.html> This is interesting, even though the use case described is again to create an image to run on a virtual machine. Presumably mmdebstrap could be used to build a bootable hurd chroot on a partition. How is this different from crosshurd? What are the advantages and disadvantages of each approach? Best regards, João
