Hello, João, le mar. 31 déc. 2024 10:23:37 +0000, a ecrit: > 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).
There is also the possibility of using the mini.iso image, which only uses network, not the CD image. > > 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? They are basically the same. It's just that crosshurd was created a long time ago specifically for being able to create a debian hurd system, and nobody took the time to keep maintaining it, while mmdebstrap was meant for creating a debian linux system. The difference mostly lie in setting the translators. See the "creating Hurd chroots on Linux using DPKG_ROOT chrootless mode" thread on this debian-hurd mailing list for the latest details. Possibly we can finish fixing mmdebstrap, document its use, and get rid of crosshurd. Contribution welcome! Samuel
