El Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:38:02 +0100 Philipp Klaus Krause <[email protected]> escribió: > I want to install Debian Hurd in a VM. > I downloaded debian-sid-hurd-amd64-NETINST-1.iso, and roughly > followed the instructions at > https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd/running/qemu.html, except: I > created a 24G qcow2 disk image, gave the VM 8G of RAM, chose C > instead of English as language in the installer: > > qemu-img create -f qcow2 disk.qcow2 24G >
Why .qcow2 and not .img? > qemu-system-x86_64 -m 8G -drive cache=writeback,file=disk.qcow2 > -cdrom debian-sid-hurd-amd64-NETINST-1.iso -net nic,model=rtl8139 > -net user -smp 1 > I am not sure that GNU/Hurd can manage 8 Gigas of RAM. > But the installer then tells me "Your installation media couldn't be > mounted. When installing from CD-ROM, this probably means that the > disk was not in the drive. If so you can insert it and try again." > > Immediately before, I briefly see a message "/hurd/iso9660fs: Could > not find valid superblock". > > Philipp > Regards. Jose Luis. -- https://lordofunix.org/ Not Registered GNU/Hurd User. Registered BSD User 51101. Registered Linux User #213309. Memories..... You are talking about memories. Rick Deckard. Blade Runner.
