Re: gnu/hurd live cd

2011-05-14 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hallo! On Fri, 13 May 2011 22:18:30 -0500, Oz wrote: > i need a graphical live cd so i can use gnu/hurd i am a noob. anyone > know when that will happen. i really want use the hurd and i need it > to be easy i am mentally weak. At this point, the GNU Hurd is targeted at developers th

gnu/hurd live cd

2011-05-13 Thread Oz
i need a graphical live cd so i can use gnu/hurd i am a noob. anyone know when that will happen. i really want use the hurd and i need it to be easy i am mentally weak.

Re: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Oz, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 21:18:31 -0600, a écrit : > do you know if it is possible to install this image using a usb? Err. I believe it does work, yes, can't you just try and see? Samuel

Re: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Oz
thanks i got the latest off the link. i dont have a cd rom drive on my netbook do you know if it is possible to install this image using a usb? On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:58 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Oz, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 20:49:03 -0600, a écrit : >> why are there to install images here?  

Re: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Oz, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 20:49:03 -0600, a écrit : > why are there to install images here? whats the difference with the 2 > at this link? > > http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/installer/cdimage/ Just the date they were built. Samuel

Re: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Oz
ems to be complicated to install from what i >> understand because 1 its not a live cd or install cd. >> 2-you need qemu virtulization. > > You are mixing two things here. > > http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/debian-hurd-17042010-qemu.img.tar.gz > > is a qemu image fro

Re: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Oz, le Fri 25 Feb 2011 15:44:14 -0600, a écrit : > Debian Gnu/Hurd seems to be complicated to install from what i > understand because 1 its not a live cd or install cd. > 2-you need qemu virtulization. You are mixing two things here. http://dept-info.labri.fr/~thibault/tmp/debian-hurd

Fwd: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Oz
-- Forwarded message -- From: Oz Date: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 4:24 PM Subject: Re: live cd To: Michael Walker i am happy with unstable and slow, if its not to hard to install. :) On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Michael Walker wrote: > On 25 February 2011 21:44, Oz wr

Re: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Michael Walker
Oops, didn't send this to the ML... On 25 February 2011 21:44, Oz wrote: > Debian Gnu/Hurd seems to be complicated to install from what i > understand because 1 its not a live cd or install cd. 2-you need qemu > virtulization. I want to run it natevly as the sole operating s

Re: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Oz
Debian Gnu/Hurd seems to be complicated to install from what i understand because 1 its not a live cd or install cd. 2-you need qemu virtulization. I want to run it natevly as the sole operating system on one netbook i have. i dont know or understand much i am a ubuntu gnu/linux user and have

Re: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Svante Signell
On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 09:25 -0600, Oz wrote: > thanks i appreciate the help. I will try the arch hurd live cd since > it is a recent build. Well, the Debian installer image is the most recent one. It is from February 21, 2011, the live CD is from December 2010. Never mind, welcome to try t

Re: live cd

2011-02-25 Thread Oz
thanks i appreciate the help. I will try the arch hurd live cd since it is a recent build. On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Svante Signell, le Thu 24 Feb 2011 22:24:27 +0100, a écrit : >> On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 14:15 -0600, Oz wrote: >> > does anyone

Re: live cd

2011-02-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Svante Signell, le Thu 24 Feb 2011 22:24:27 +0100, a écrit : > On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 14:15 -0600, Oz wrote: > > does anyone have an estimated time GNU/Hurd might be available as a > > live cd for a noob like me to install. Somthing similar to the ubuntu > > GNU/linux? > &

Re: live cd

2011-02-24 Thread Svante Signell
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 14:15 -0600, Oz wrote: > does anyone have an estimated time GNU/Hurd might be available as a > live cd for a noob like me to install. Somthing similar to the ubuntu > GNU/linux? Arch Hurd has a live CD: http://www.archhurd.org/ Otherwise you can install GNU/Hur

live cd

2011-02-24 Thread Oz
does anyone have an estimated time GNU/Hurd might be available as a live cd for a noob like me to install. Somthing similar to the ubuntu GNU/linux?

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
em you could use instead. > I also thought about mastering a new live cd containing updated > packages and other goodies (like the debian-ports signing key from the > official archives :) but on the other hand I'm not sure if it's worth > the trouble seeing that Jérémies

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-09 Thread Justus Winter
grml or the like and see whether mkfs.ext2 running on linux likes it. While playing around with the image I noticed that the bittorrent tracker I used went offline (thanks Hollywood >,<) so I'll publish a new torrent file with updated tracker information. I also thought about mastering a

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
t one needed one operating system to install another one and the > > lessons learned with both the installer and the live cd will > > greatly benefit debian-installer as well imho. > > Mmm, just to make sure you know it: the plan is to use a Hurd system > for the hurd-i386 debia

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-05-09 Thread Samuel Thibault
ned with both the installer and the live cd will greatly benefit > debian-installer as well imho. Mmm, just to make sure you know it: the plan is to use a Hurd system for the hurd-i386 debian installer. Samuel

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-05-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
haring it! The readme and the install script read very nice (I read them once, but didn’t doublecheck them; the install script is very readable!), I couldn’t yet try them, though. I’m currently downloading the live CD via BitTorrent. Best wish

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 syste

live CD README (was: Source repositories, unionmount code)

2009-10-24 Thread olafBuddenhagen
s. AIUI Ben's live CD actually does have something like this (though I never tested it myself...) -- I'm sure any improvements to this are welcome :-) -antrik-