Re: K15 mini iso

2007-12-03 Thread Philip Charles
On Monday 03 December 2007 21:14, Raghesh A wrote: > Hi, > > We have made a change in the installation script to format the ext2 > partition with block size 4096(-b 4096). Now its booting with a > partition of size less than 500MB. Earlier we were getting the > following error. > > "start /hurd/ex

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-12-03 Thread Raghesh A
Hi, We have made a change in the installation script to format the ext2 partition with block size 4096(-b 4096). Now its booting with a partition of size less than 500MB. Earlier we were getting the following error. "start /hurd/ext2fs.static: ext2fs: device:hd0s1: panic: disk_cache_init: Block

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-12-01 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:10:31PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > - On 11/29/07, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | A new gcc-4.2 (gcc-4.2_4.2.2-4) got uploaded yesterday, and is currently > | building for hurd-i386. > \-- > > Where can I find the sources for the above? > >

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-12-01 Thread Philip Charles
I have a clean baseGNU/tarball with a working aptitude. I plan to look at the disc sets over the next few days. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-30 Thread Philip Charles
On Friday 30 November 2007 17:23, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > - On 11/29/07, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Are you using Debian sources for cross-compilation? > > \-- > > I am using Debian Etch GNU/Linux+unstable+testing. But, are the Hurd > gcc sources/patches are available

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-29 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, - On 11/29/07, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Are you using Debian sources for cross-compilation? \-- I am using Debian Etch GNU/Linux+unstable+testing. But, are the Hurd gcc sources/patches are available from apt? - | If not, why does it | matter? \-- I don't have a Deb

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 11:10:31PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Where can I find the sources for the above? > > I would like to test the same for cross-compilation as mentioned here: > http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/building/cross-compiling/ > http://www.bddebian.com/~wiki/hurd/building/cros

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-29 Thread Shakthi Kannan
Hi, - On 11/29/07, Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | A new gcc-4.2 (gcc-4.2_4.2.2-4) got uploaded yesterday, and is currently | building for hurd-i386. \-- Where can I find the sources for the above? I would like to test the same for cross-compilation as mentioned here: http://www.b

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-29 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 08:25:53AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > Okay, now frozen. A new gcc-4.2 (gcc-4.2_4.2.2-4) got uploaded yesterday, and is currently building for hurd-i386. This is an important update as gcc-4.2 is now the default compiler and this upload fixes static linking and adds crt

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-29 Thread Philip Charles
On Thursday 29 November 2007 17:06, Raghesh A wrote: > Dear Philip, > > Thanks a lot. > > We were able to reproduce the block size problem with a partition of > 500 MB. Now we will change the block size to 4096 and test it out. > Good luck. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbots

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Raghesh A
Dear Philip, Thanks a lot. We were able to reproduce the block size problem with a partition of 500 MB. Now we will change the block size to 4096 and test it out. Regards, Raghesh On Nov 29, 2007 1:37 AM, Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 November 2007 18:22, you wrote:

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Philip Charles
On Thursday 29 November 2007 02:44, Michael Banck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:06:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > No sign of the new glibc and hurd packages yet. I will probably > > create a little script to check daily. > > Oops. I did not upload them because I wanted to wait on K15

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Michael Banck
On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 12:06:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > No sign of the new glibc and hurd packages yet. I will probably create a > little script to check daily. Oops. I did not upload them because I wanted to wait on K15, not the other way round. The new major glibc release has not s

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-28 Thread Philip Charles
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 13:16, Michael Banck wrote: > > Calicut have it easy because they use a shell script instead of > binaries in an initrd, so it'd be a matter of search and replace (I > pointed it out to one of them a while ago I think) > > Anyway, this is not a regression from K14 (or

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:51:06AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > On Tuesday 27 November 2007 06:42, Michael Banck wrote: > I am still working on the mkfs.ext2 block size problem. It is nasty as > any solution involves working with the binaries in initrd. I now > remember the problem from when

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-26 Thread Philip Charles
On Tuesday 27 November 2007 06:42, Michael Banck wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:37:17PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > I will quietly work on the revisions and let everyone how I get on. > > I am not sure at which point of the K15 process you are at, but I think > now would be a good time to

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 06:37:17PM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > I will quietly work on the revisions and let everyone how I get on. I am not sure at which point of the K15 process you are at, but I think now would be a good time to release it, unless you hit major issues. We will update the cor

/usr->. symlink (was: K15 mini iso)

2007-11-22 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 05:44:43PM +0100, Michael Banck wrote: > The true GNU snapshots will have a /usr->. symlink (or no /usr at > all). Actually neither is right I think. AIUI the idea is to have /usr unioned into / , so the files can be put in separate locations, but are all visible from

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-21 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Thu, Nov 22, 2007 at 12:54:08AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > On Wednesday 21 November 2007 15:17, Michael Banck wrote: > > > > 2. There is a /usr->. symlink, not a real /usr. > > > I need direction on this. > 1. Is the / filesystem to remain as I have it? > 2. is the /usr->. to be remo

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-21 Thread Philip Charles
On Wednesday 21 November 2007 15:17, Michael Banck wrote: > > 2. There is a /usr->. symlink, not a real /usr. > I need direction on this. 1. Is the / filesystem to remain as I have it? 2. is the /usr->. to be removed? 3. is the /usr filesystem to follow the Linux example? Phil. -- Philip

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-21 Thread Philip Charles
Hi, Good to be back in business again. I am suggesting that we join forces. Your Calicut team do the boot floppies taking into account Michael Banck's first point about formatting the hurd partition. I will revise the tarball scripts to take into account Michael's two other points. I w

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-21 Thread CK Raju, Thrissur
On Nov 20, 2007 5:13 PM, Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If all goes well then K16 (or one of the Calicut L series) should be out > before the end of the year. Yes, Philip. Please expect the rejoinder surprise from the Calicut L team. CK Raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-20 Thread Philip Charles
Thanks for this Michael, On Wednesday 21 November 2007 15:17, Michael Banck wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:43:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > > This has turned out to be a tidy image and should not give any > > problems. > > I tested it now on qemu and I found three minor issue: >

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-20 Thread Michael Banck
Hi, On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:43:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > This has turned out to be a tidy image and should not give any problems. I tested it now on qemu and I found three minor issue: 1. In the installer, the Hurd ext2 partitions are not created with -b 4096, so partitions s

Re: K15 mini iso

2007-11-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 12:43:22AM +1300, Philip Charles wrote: > The K15 mini iso has been uploaded to gnuab.org. I have asked Guillem to > move it into place. Cool! I will test this later today or tomorrow and report back. I just uploaded aptitude, it should be available to mirror

K15 mini iso

2007-11-20 Thread Philip Charles
The K15 mini iso has been uploaded to gnuab.org. I have asked Guillem to move it into place. The usual warning. GNU/Hurd is a developing os and people should take the proper precautions when using this image. The gnu*.tar.gz tarball can be found within the image as baseGNU.tgz This has