Re: Errors in Debian GNU/Hurd installation in real hardware

2018-08-03 Thread Almudena Garcia
Ok. Then I'll try to change the CD reader. Thanks 2018-08-03 18:27 GMT+02:00 Samuel Thibault : > Almudena Garcia, le ven. 03 août 2018 18:20:22 +0200, a ecrit: > > The error appears with many different CD and DVD, May can be the CD/DVD > reader, > > but I don't know if this is a driver problem o

Re: Errors in Debian GNU/Hurd installation in real hardware

2018-08-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Almudena Garcia, le ven. 03 août 2018 18:20:22 +0200, a ecrit: > The error appears with many different CD and DVD, May can be the CD/DVD > reader, > but I don't know if this is a driver problem or physical problem I wrote "drive", not "driver", i.e. I meant the reader. It's the reader itself whic

Re: Errors in Debian GNU/Hurd installation in real hardware

2018-08-03 Thread Almudena Garcia
The error appears with many different CD and DVD, May can be the CD/DVD reader, but I don't know if this is a driver problem or physical problem How can I check drivers? 2018-08-03 18:16 GMT+02:00 Samuel Thibault : > Hello, > > Almudena Garcia, le ven. 03 août 2018 18:11:46 +0200, a ecrit: > > D

Re: Errors in Debian GNU/Hurd installation in real hardware

2018-08-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Almudena Garcia, le ven. 03 août 2018 18:11:46 +0200, a ecrit: > Do you know what can be the cause of this error? This looks like hardware errors, i.e. either the drive or the media. Samuel

Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, On 2015-01-28 16:19:05 +0100 Svante Signell wrote: Hi, some questions/thoughts: 1) Can you boot in single-user mode? no, same problem 2) Did you unstall a gnumach-dbg kernel? no: this is a fresh CD install 3) Did you install Hurd on a partition? 4) Did you format that partition

Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-28 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 14:46 +0100, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Hi, > > Justus Winter wrote: > > What happened to you at 1) is most likely just bad luck then. There > > is no reason to believe that the bootstrap is different at this point. > > The current bootstrap mechanism is unfortunately not ver

Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-28 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, Justus Winter wrote: What happened to you at 1) is most likely just bad luck then. There is no reason to believe that the bootstrap is different at this point. The current bootstrap mechanism is unfortunately not very robust and it is known to randomly hang. I tried several times though, n

Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-27 Thread Justus Winter
Quoting Riccardo Mottola (2015-01-25 17:55:13) > Hi, > > I'm trying to install HURD on a laptop > PIII 700, 392MB Ram, wireless card ("ral") > > full image, 5-1-2015 > > 1) text install. Install hangs idle (the cpu fan stops, thus I suppose > no loop) > start ext2fs: Hurd server bootstrap: ext2

Re: HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Riccardo Mottola, le Sun 25 Jan 2015 17:55:13 +0100, a écrit : > I'm trying to install HURD on a laptop > PIII 700, 392MB Ram, wireless card ("ral") That's not much RAM, we still haven't fixed some spurious allocations for the initrd, I'm afraid 392M may not be enough for the default d-i process.

HURD installation on laptop

2015-01-25 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, I'm trying to install HURD on a laptop PIII 700, 392MB Ram, wireless card ("ral") full image, 5-1-2015 1) text install. Install hangs idle (the cpu fan stops, thus I suppose no loop) start ext2fs: Hurd server bootstrap: ext2fs[gunzip:device:rd0] exec 2) pseudo-graphical install: gives so

Re: Debian Installer questions Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation

2010-11-16 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Tue 16 Nov 2010 22:39:13 +0100, a écrit : > - Is it still maintained, It hasn't been rebuilt, mostly due to lack of time (and interest, since what we have now just works (no known bug), and is already commited or submitted upstream, so should already be ok longterm-wise). > lat

Debian Installer questions Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation

2010-11-16 Thread Svante Signell
On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 14:25 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Hello, > > There were some reports that the d-i image on > http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/ > was hanging/erroring during grub configuration. This is now solved: the > problem was simply newer grub/parted packages on the offici

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation

2010-10-21 Thread Vikram Vincent
Hello, On 20 October 2010 17:55, Samuel Thibault wrote: > There were some reports that the d-i image on > http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/ > was hanging/erroring during grub configuration.  This is now solved: the The installation went well. Vikram

Debian GNU/Hurd installation

2010-10-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, There were some reports that the d-i image on http://jk.fr.eu.org/debian/hurd-installer/ was hanging/erroring during grub configuration. This is now solved: the problem was simply newer grub/parted packages on the official debian mirrors, which were overriding the patched version of Jeremi

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-23 Thread Samuel Thibault
Arne Babenhauserheide, le Fri 23 Jul 2010 17:57:46 +0200, a écrit : > 128MiB might be a bit too little… :) Yes. At least 256MiB is a must. > (I don’t use kvm – I don’t know if my CPU supports it: no svm flag (amd64)) no svm on amd64 -> no kvm (vmx on intel). Samuel

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-23 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Thursday 22 July 2010 20:27:41 Michael Banck wrote: > Maybe try assigning more RAM to KVM if you assigned much less than > 512MB. Just a wild guess. That might be a good hit → -m megs set virtual RAM size to megs MB [default=128] 128MiB might be a bit too little… :) (I don’t use kvm

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 08:43:13AM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Hi Justus, > > On Monday 12 July 2010 15:40:07 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Do you have an idea why it breaks here? > > Are you still there? Maybe try assigning more RAM to KVM if you assigned much less than 512M

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-21 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Justus, On Monday 12 July 2010 15:40:07 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Do you have an idea why it breaks here? Are you still there? Best wishes, Arne -- singing a part of the history of free software: - http://infinite-hands.draketo.de signature.asc Description: This is a digitally si

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Monday 12 July 2010 14:53:02 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Hm, I just retried the installation in kvm and creating the filesystem > > worked for me. > > I just tried it again and realized my error: I had assumed that the script > had partitioned the disk, so my disk simply wasn’t partitioned

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Justus, > > I now got to testing it. > Cool, you are the first person of who tried the installer and gave me > some feedback :) I didn’t expect that… and sorry for taking so long, my timescale is often quite long, so it took me some time to get from the decision to test it to actually doing

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-09 Thread Justus Winter
Hey Arne :) > On Sunday 09 May 2010 16:19:32 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > > Am Sonntag, 9. Mai 2010, 00:01:12 schrieb Justus Winter: > > > I just wanted to say hello and to inform you about two young pet > > > projects of mine, an installation wizard in the spirit of the > > > OpenBSD installer

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Sunday 09 May 2010 16:19:32 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > Am Sonntag, 9. Mai 2010, 00:01:12 schrieb Justus Winter: > > I just wanted to say hello and to inform you about two young pet > > projects of mine, an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD > > installer and a script to master

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-05-09 Thread Justus Winter
On Mon, 10 May 2010 00:20:43 +0200 Samuel Thibault wrote: > Justus Winter, le Sun 09 May 2010 00:01:12 +0200, a écrit : > > Btw, I know about the plan to get the debian-installer running on > > the Hurd and I don't want compete with it. But it always bugged me > > that one needed one operating sy

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
Justus Winter, le Sun 09 May 2010 00:01:12 +0200, a écrit : > Btw, I know about the plan to get the debian-installer running on the > Hurd and I don't want compete with it. But it always bugged me that one > needed one operating system to install another one and the lessons > learned with both the

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-05-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 9. Mai 2010, 00:01:12 schrieb Justus Winter: > I just wanted to say hello and to inform you about two young pet > projects of mine, an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD > installer and a script to master live cds from existing systems. Cool! Many thanks for sharing it!

Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-05-08 Thread Justus Winter
Hey everyone :) I just wanted to say hello and to inform you about two young pet projects of mine, an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer and a script to master live cds from existing systems. I've created one live cd that is able to install a Debian GNU/Hurd system. It can

Re: GNU Hurd Installation

2009-11-14 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 03:11:07AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > hal has been uploaded and xorg may be installable again now. Indeed it is :-) -antrik-

Re: GNU Hurd Installation

2009-11-10 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 08:25:16PM +0100, Jakub Daniel wrote: > I was wondering whether there was a way how to boot GNU/Hurd in qemu > without having boot floppy. While you can't install GRUB from Hurd directly, it should be perfectly possible to boot with the HD image and a GRUB rescue CD o

Re: GNU Hurd Installation

2009-11-09 Thread Jakub Daniel
Hello I was wondering whether there was a way how to boot GNU/Hurd in qemu without having boot floppy. If there is anybody who knows that it would be probably You as You contribute to Hurd greatly. thanks Jakub

Re: GNU Hurd Installation

2009-11-07 Thread Samuel Thibault
Jakub Daniel, le Tue 03 Nov 2009 22:07:53 +0100, a écrit : > how to install xorg. but i cant meet the dependencies with the > repositories listed on that site. hal has been uploaded and xorg may be installable again now. Samuel

Re: GNU Hurd Installation

2009-11-03 Thread Jakub Daniel
I would love to know what to do with it to make it work. But few more problems appeared. http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install gives us hints how to install xorg. but i cant meet the dependencies with the repositories listed on that site. the same problem with packages like emacs, mount.

Re: GNU Hurd Installation

2009-11-03 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, grub installation has never worked from GNU/Hurd yet. Only very recently patches have been sent upstream to fix some of the issues you're having but there are still fundamental things we need to fix until we get grub installation working. I will discuss about it here when I get some time t

Re: GNU Hurd Installation

2009-11-03 Thread Jakub Daniel
Thank You very much, more memory solved the freezing. But now I am facing another problem with grub2. I am not sure whether this question belongs here but after flawless native-install i try to run update-grub and i get only grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for /. # /boot/grub/device.map (

Re: GNU Hurd Installation

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:40:13PM +0100, Jakub Daniel wrote: > I am trying to get GNU Hurd (Debian's L1) to work in qemu and I follow the > instructions on the Debian's site. Great, please continue to report how it works! > Copying baseGNU to the virtual disk works. Even booting got thr

GNU Hurd Installation

2009-11-01 Thread Jakub Daniel
Hello. I am trying to get GNU Hurd (Debian's L1) to work in qemu and I follow the instructions on the Debian's site. Copying baseGNU to the virtual disk works. Even booting got through but when I try to run native-install it never gets to the very end. First time it froze on `sed' package, the

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-02 Thread Данило Шеган
Hi Marcus, ÐÑÑÐ Ñ 15:24, Marcus Brinkmann ÑÐ: > Why is this on both lists? Because Anil originally posted to a dozen lists, I replied only to help-hurd asking him to keep CC limited, and with Anil restarting threads several times, all of us probably just lost track of it. >> You've got a p

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-02 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Why is this on both lists? At Tue, 01 Feb 2005 15:33:51 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ÐÐ Ð) wrote: > Still, if it complained (not necessarily halted, a warning might be > enough: you wouldn't be annoyed by a warning indicating that you're > running your GNU/Linux system off a "Hurd" ext2 file

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-01 Thread Michael Banck
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 10:32:20PM +0500, ANIL C JOHN wrote: > I did "rescue root=/dev/hdb3" when booted from CD to boot from that > partition, it also stalled after booting for a while, and found the > following messages before stall: 'rescue' most probably boots a Linux kernel (as also the messa

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-01 Thread Данило Шеган
Hi Alfred, Ñ Ñ 15:02, Alfred M. Szmidt ÑÐ: >You've actually tried to run Linux kernel using GNU filesystem. > > There is no such thing as a "GNU filesystem", yet. Yes there is: "filesystem of a GNU system", as currently residing in someone's GNU installation ("installation of the G

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-01 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
You've actually tried to run Linux kernel using GNU filesystem. There is no such thing as a "GNU filesystem", yet. because I hope Linux would complain if ostype is not set to linux on ext2 filesystems it tries to use as root filesystems. No it shouldn't, it is still ext2. Infact, I o

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-01 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I can't find this error in the GNU Mach or the Hurd sourcecode. Is this a debian thing? I think Anil is trying to use Linux to boot Debian GNU/Hurd instead of GNU Mach. Didn't occur to me before... ___ Bug-hurd mailing list Bug-hurd@gnu.org htt

Re: hurd installation

2005-02-01 Thread Danilo Segan
Yesterday at 18:32, ANIL C. JOHN wrote: > I did "rescue root=/dev/hdb3" when booted from CD to boot from that > partition, it also stalled after booting for a > while, and found the following messages before stall:(by the way > hurd is installed in partition /dev/hdb3 and mount on /gnu) This i

Re: hurd installation

2005-01-31 Thread Marco Gerards
ANIL C JOHN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did "rescue root=/dev/hdb3" when booted from CD to boot from that > partition, it also stalled after booting for a > while, and found the following messages before stall:(by the way hurd is > installed in partition /dev/hdb3 and mount on /gnu) > > "Pa

hurd installation

2005-01-31 Thread ANIL C JOHN
dear hackers, i've now understood that the problem is with my systemand not with the CD. I did "rescue root=/dev/hdb3" when booted from CDto boot from that partition, it also stalled after booting for a while,and found the following messages before stall:(by the way hurd isinstalled in partition

Wanted Hurd installation CDs - student in kerala, INDIA

2005-01-21 Thread ANIL C JOHN
Dear Sir, Wanted to buy Hurd Installation CDs as soon as possible,for my curriculum project. Please help by giving me links to buying theinstallation CDs or reference to those who give it. By the way i haveno access to high speed internet connectivity to download the ISOimages of the CD from