Re: strange behaviour of HURD (was: MAKEDEV kills everything)

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
On 7/11/07, Arguri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I think he just wanted to say that the benefit from using the CD might be worth the difficulties in getting it. Nevertheless, if you can just start over again, it might be worth trying (and be easier as you just figured out, that you can just l

my last experiment with HURD cross-installation

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
ok, after playing with HURD for 2 days, i came to know that cross-install method is an exercise-in-frustration. it installs,boots and problems and problems and unresolved problems: the root cause of problem is "./native-install" script which fails to run for the 2nd time. this is what i get at 2

Re: strange behaviour of HURD (was: MAKEDEV kills everything)

2007-07-10 Thread Arguri
Hi, arnuld schrieb: On 7/11/07, Teague MacRoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I understand that you have a restrictive Internet accuses, but just last night (09 July 07) I was able to go from formating a new hard drive to logging in as root in 'bout 30 minutes. Very little of that time was I tru

Re: strange behaviour of HURD (was: MAKEDEV kills everything)

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
On 7/11/07, Teague MacRoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I understand that you have a restrictive Internet accuses, but just last night (09 July 07) I was able to go from formating a new hard drive to logging in as root in 'bout 30 minutes. Very little of that time was I truly on line. Something

Re: strange behaviour of HURD (was: MAKEDEV kills everything)

2007-07-10 Thread Teague MacRoot
Arnuld, I myself am brand new to GNU, so I know nothing regarding your issue. That said, if you go to, http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2007/06/threads.html and scroll down towards the bottom of the page you will find some of my posts. In them I posted that I had tryed several different me

Re: GRUB install question for HURD

2007-07-10 Thread Teague MacRoot
Glad you got this sorted. Cheers arnuld wrote: On 7/10/07, Teague MacRoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well you have two options that will work. 1) You could edit your existing menu.lst file (I see that you are dual booting) with the correct information to boot GNU, or b. You could copy an exi

Re: GRUB install question for HURD

2007-07-10 Thread Andrea Bolognani
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 21:58:28 +0530 arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to provide some help to some other newbie in future, i am posting my > "/boot/grub/menu.lst" file from Arch LiGnux (well, that is my > invention -> LiGnux ;-) Actually, the term "LiGNUs" was proposed back in 1996, but was nev

strange behaviour of HURD (was: MAKEDEV kills everything)

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
On 7/10/07, arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: well i tried again with "./MAKEDEV hd0s4" only and same error: # ./MAKEDEV hd0s4 Killed # ls /etc Killed # reboot Killed # :-( any idea gentlemen ? HECK, i had to hard-boot, HURD could not reboot. at next reboot, i entered into single-user mode

Re: GRUB install question for HURD

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
On 7/10/07, Teague MacRoot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well you have two options that will work. 1) You could edit your existing menu.lst file (I see that you are dual booting) with the correct information to boot GNU, or b. You could copy an existing ~/grub directory into your GNU /boot directo

Re: which HURD tarball ??

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 03:09:57PM +0530, arnuld wrote: > now i noticed this: http://hurd.in/bin/view/Hurd/SetupGNU and it > directs me to a download of 278 MB > > same HURD ... but size 278 MB ??? Who said it's the same Hurd (it's spelled Hurd, not HURD)? The latter is a GNU snapshot, not

Re: Bug#431127: speedy-cgi-perl: shouldn't build-dep on procps on hurd-i386

2007-07-10 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 12:37:58PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Niko Tyni, le Sat 07 Jul 2007 12:25:32 +0300, a écrit : > > On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 01:11:16AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Package: speedy-cgi-perl > > > Version: 2.22-8 > > > Severity: important > > > > > This packag

Re: GRUB install question for HURD

2007-07-10 Thread Teague MacRoot
Well you have two options that will work. 1) You could edit your existing menu.lst file (I see that you are dual booting) with the correct information to boot GNU, or b. You could copy an existing ~/grub directory into your GNU /boot directory (as you suggested) and then boot via the chainloader

Re latest ISO images

2007-07-10 Thread doxa
Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has completed work on it. He should be able to help you. Tomorrow is his last exam day, and then after he's the regular baby of Debian Hurd team, groomed by Philip Charles. CK Raju Original Message --- Hello there, is there some newer iso image than K14? I wo

which HURD tarball ??

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
i used this guide to install HURD: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install and directs me to these place to get HURD tarball: http://ftp.gnuab.org/pub/debian/base/ http://www.superunprivileged.org/debian/base/ http://ftp.easynet.be/ftp/gnuab/debian/base/ and from any of these i can downl

Re: HURD boots and runs but it says "Automatic boot failed"

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
On 7/10/07, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: arnuld, le Tue 10 Jul 2007 14:53:34 +0530, a écrit : > i installed using the cross-install method, it boots but MAKEDEV kills > everything as i wrote in the other thread titled (MAKEDEV kills > everything.) Just to make sure: you remember

Re: HURD boots and runs but it says "Automatic boot failed"

2007-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
arnuld, le Tue 10 Jul 2007 14:53:34 +0530, a écrit : > i installed using the cross-install method, it boots but MAKEDEV kills > everything as i wrote in the other thread titled (MAKEDEV kills > everything.) Just to make sure: you remembered to use -o hurd when formating your root partition? S

HURD boots and runs but it says "Automatic boot failed"

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
i installed using the cross-install method, it boots but MAKEDEV kills everything as i wrote in the other thread titled (MAKEDEV kills everything.) now HURD boots and i get this: - fsck.ext2: Ukknown code P 2 while trying to (..something written he

Re: MAKEDEV kills everything (including the filesystem)

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
On 7/10/07, arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i followed the HURD installation guide for cross-installation: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install i successfully booted into my fresh HURD installation. then did this: # export TERM=mach # ./native-install and i rebooted as i needed to do

Re: MAKEDEV kills everything (including the filesystem)

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
On 7/10/07, Samuel Thibault <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops, sorry, please ignore my previous mail. Only the third boot needs to be done out of single user. i know that but that does not solve my problem :-( -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: MAKEDEV kills everything (including the filesystem)

2007-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
arnuld, le Tue 10 Jul 2007 13:00:33 +0530, a écrit : > i followed the HURD installation guide for cross-installation: > http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install > > i successfully booted into my fresh HURD installation. then did this: > > # export TERM=mach > # ./native-install > > and i re

Re: MAKEDEV kills everything (including the filesystem)

2007-07-10 Thread Samuel Thibault
arnuld, le Tue 10 Jul 2007 13:00:33 +0530, a écrit : > i followed the HURD installation guide for cross-installation: > http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install > > i successfully booted into my fresh HURD installation. then did this: > > # export TERM=mach > # ./native-install > > and i re

MAKEDEV kills everything (including the filesystem)

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
i followed the HURD installation guide for cross-installation: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install i successfully booted into my fresh HURD installation. then did this: # export TERM=mach # ./native-install and i rebooted as i needed to do "./native-install" 2nd time. during 2nd boot

GRUB install question for HURD

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
it is tedious to type the GRUB commands for GRUB floopy, how can i install GRUB into my HURD partition. should i create a directory "/boot/grub" and copy all of the files from floppy to that directory and then edit "menu.lst" to have those lines (except "-s") ??? -- http://arnuld.blogspot.com/

Re: GRUB options for HURD installation

2007-07-10 Thread arnuld
On 7/10/07, arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i followed this guide: http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install and in section "5 - booting GNU/Hurd" i see this: Assuming that the first drive (i.e. `(hd0)') is the master on the secondary controller, we would have: grub> kernel (hd0,0)/boo