Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-11-02 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 02:41:35PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:37, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > R. Steven Rainwater, le Tue 18 Sep 2007 17:28:00 -0500, a écrit : > > > But what would be more helpful for me right now is a "How to > > > become a Hurd Hacker" tutor

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-10-10 Thread R. Steven Rainwater
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:37, Samuel Thibault wrote: > R. Steven Rainwater, le Tue 18 Sep 2007 17:28:00 -0500, a écrit : > > But what would be more helpful for me right now is a > > "How to become a Hurd Hacker" tutorial > > Well, contribute by writing it ;) Okay, I've finally got a rough draft tog

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:57:15PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > I hit my first problem with gnumach, following the instructions at the > gnumach/building page listed above. I was able to download the source > from CVS and build it on my GNU/Hurd box. How did you configure the build?

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-25 Thread Barry deFreese
R. Steven Rainwater wrote: On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:59, Thomas Schwinge wrote: On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:28:00PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: "How to become a Hurd Hacker" tutorial OK, no problem with starting such a thing. There just has to be someone to do it :-). And,

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-25 Thread R. Steven Rainwater
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:59, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:28:00PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > > "How to become a Hurd Hacker" tutorial > > OK, no problem with starting such a thing. There just has to be > someone to do it :-). And, good news: parts of it already ex

Re: NIC woes (was: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers)

2007-09-20 Thread R. Steven Rainwater
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 14:59, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > > The Hurd installed and even booted but TCP/IP refused to > > work. The problem was a defective built-in ethernet port > > on the P2B-LS board. While Linux is okay using a

NIC woes (was: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers)

2007-09-20 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > The second box was an ASUS P2B-LS motherboard with an Intel PII-MMX > 400 MHz CPU. The Hurd installed and even booted but TCP/IP refused to > work. The problem was a defective built-in ethernet port on the P2B-LS > board.

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-20 Thread Ben Asselstine
On 9/20/07, Thomas Schwinge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > How big is this hard disk? Ben Asselstine also recently reported about > having no luck with booting when using a 300 GiB hard disk. We suspect > that there may be problems somewhere in GNU Mach and / or GNU Hurd's > libdiskfs an

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-20 Thread R. Steven Rainwater
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 10:28, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:47, Claudio Fontana wrote: > > > http://www.nongnu.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html > > > > Thanks for the link. We should probably incorporate an u

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 05:28:00PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > "How to become a Hurd Hacker" tutorial OK, no problem with starting such a thing. There just has to be someone to do it :-). And, good news: parts of it already exist. Some examples: *

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-20 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 02:32:01PM -0500, R. Steven Rainwater wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:47, Claudio Fontana wrote: > > http://www.nongnu.org/thug/gnumach_hardware.html > > Thanks for the link. We should probably incorporate an updated version > of that into the new Hurd Wiki.

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-19 Thread R. Steven Rainwater
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 17:47, Claudio Fontana wrote: > On 9/19/07, R. Steven Rainwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm new to Hurd development and I've spent the last few days struggling > > to find hardware the Debian GNU/Hurd distro will install on. Now that > > I've done that, > > what did yo

Re: HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
R. Steven Rainwater, le Tue 18 Sep 2007 17:28:00 -0500, a écrit : > But what would be more helpful for me right now is a "How to become a > Hurd Hacker" tutorial > etc. Well, contribute by writing it ;) Samuel ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.or

HHG and newbie Hurd Hackers

2007-09-18 Thread R. Steven Rainwater
On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 16:21, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > For what it's worth, Ben Asselstine has been working on > updating it. A pre-release of the updated version if being > offered from . > ...But: everone of you can contribute! Work through the > update HHG, fo