Hello, Philipp Klaus Krause, le mer. 25 févr. 2026 12:38:02 +0100, a ecrit: > I downloaded debian-sid-hurd-amd64-NETINST-1.iso,
[...] > 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". Have you checked the md5 of the file, to make sure you didn't get corruption? Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez, le mer. 25 févr. 2026 14:27:02 +0100, a ecrit: > 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? That won't hurt, it's only qemu that will care. > > 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. The amd64 kernel does. Samuel
