Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-05 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Juanjo Marín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > root (hd0,5) > kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=hd0s6 > module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} > module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) To use this method, your root= must look like this: root=device:

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-05 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 05:35:56PM +0100, Ondrej Hurt wrote: > You are suggesting to make Yet Another Personal Hurd Site but this is > exactly what I was arguing against. My point was that people should > contribute to some central site more than to their own sites. > I can't contribute myself now

Re: Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-04 Thread Ian Duggan
exactly what I was arguing against. My point was that people should contribute to some central site more than to their own sites. I can't contribute myself now because I am a newcomer. I could only The web-hurd list is a good place to discuss this. Early in the summer, Jim Franklin was active on

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-04 Thread Juanjo Marín
I copied the line from a printed pdf version and it seems that the pdf cuts this line. Sorry for this stupid mistake !!! I take the document from my Debian CDs H1, CD #1 from the /hurd-doc directory, so we should correct it (well, if it is wrong, cause maybe my acrobat reader 4.0 it is bugged

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-04 Thread Neal H Walfield
> kernel /boot/gnumach.gz -s root=device:hd0s6 > module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} > module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) > > I've got stuck in Well, you need to actually use the entire command line in -- not just the first 70 characters.

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-04 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
* Juanjo Marín writes: > /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} That should be: module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${roo

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-04 Thread Moritz Schulte
Juanjo Marín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I suppose I am using and old bootstrapping, though I am using > Debian Hurd H1 CDs, with 3.0.15.hurd-H , because if I boot for the > first time with [...] > I've got stuck in [...] Yes, that's possible, that these CDs don't support the new method yet.

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-04 Thread Juanjo Marín
A las 21:50:48 03/12/01, Moritz Schulte dijo algo como esto: Neals guide is more uptodate, so the commands found in that guide should be used. Recently the bootstrapping changed a bit. Previously we used 'serverboot', which took care of starting the server for the root filesystem and the exec serv

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-04 Thread Neal H Walfield
> You are suggesting to make Yet Another Personal Hurd Site but this is > exactly what I was arguing against. This is not what he is suggesting. > My point was that people should > contribute to some central site more than to their own sites. > I can't contribute myself now because I am a newcome

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-04 Thread Juanjo Marín
A las 21:50:48 03/12/01, Moritz Schulte dijo algo como esto: Neals guide is more uptodate, so the commands found in that guide should be used. Recently the bootstrapping changed a bit. Previously we used 'serverboot', which took care of starting the server for the root filesystem and the exec serv

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-04 Thread Ondrej Hurt
> > Look above for an idea of what I roughly mean by directory of Hurd > > specific stuff. I would merge it with hurd.gnu.org. > > I like to compare the web site hurrd.gnu.org with the Hurd source code. > The Hurd source code is the essence of the Hurd development. It is what > is considered to be

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-04 Thread root
On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:42:43AM +0100, Ondrej Hurt wrote: > Look above for an idea of what I roughly mean by directory of Hurd > specific stuff. I would merge it with hurd.gnu.org. I like to compare the web site hurrd.gnu.org with the Hurd source code. The Hurd source code is the essence of the

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-04 Thread Ondrej Hurt
> > This points to a more general problem: I think that we should make > > one "official" Hurd web site with all important information. > > There is, http://hurd.gnu.org/. I consider this page a nice starting stage of the central resource keeper/directory at most. > > Now all the information is

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-04 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > hurd.gnu.org would be the best choice, IMO, but Debian ports page is > also a good choice (though I think only debian-specific stuff should > be put in there) > THUG (Troronto Hurd Users Group) http://www.freesoftware.fsf.org/thug/docs.html are m

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread Gustavo Noronha Silva
On Mon, 03 Dec 2001 22:50:51 +0100 (CET) Ondrej Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wouldn't it be nice if _most_ of the information spread across web > was at ONE CENRAL PLACE known to everyone ? Shouldn't we make _one_ > "official" instalation guide which is up-to-date rather than to have > severa

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:20:19PM +0100, Ondrej Hurt wrote: > > What needs most work currently is the hurd info manual, where most > > of the content should be anyway. > > What do you mean ? Is it somewhere on-line ? "info hurd", or at the Hurd web site under Documentation. > Sure, writing docu

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 06:19:24PM -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote: > Now, the reality of the situation is that GNU tries its best to > collect Hurd-specific stuff on hurd.gnu.org while Debian tries to > collect Debian GNU/Hurd stuff (such as the installation guide) > on the aforementioned Debian site.

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread Ondrej Hurt
> > Wouldn't it be nice if _most_ of the information spread across web > > was at ONE CENRAL PLACE known to everyone ? > Sure, but I think that energy should not only put into collecting > the bits and pieces, but also to work it over and fill in the gaps. > > What needs most work currently is th

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Ondrej Hurt wrote: > This points to a more general problem: I think that we should make > one "official" Hurd web site with all important information. There is, http://hurd.gnu.org/. From this page, under "Installation" it mentions that it is possible to

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread James Morrison
--- Florian Zimmermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What is wrong with hurd.gnu.org? If you have something to add there join [EMAIL PROTECTED] = James Morrison University of Waterloo Computer Science - Digital Hardware 2A co-op http://hurd.dyndns.org Anyone refering this as 'Open Sour

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread Florian Zimmermann
> Wouldn't it be nice if _most_ of the information spread across web > was at ONE CENRAL PLACE known to everyone ? Shouldn't we make _one_ > "official" instalation guide which is up-to-date rather than to have > several personal (sometimes unmaintained) texts ? If anybody has > something to say he

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
We already have an official web site for the Hurd [1], and for Debian/Hurd [2]. And the name for the Hurd is `the Hurd', not Hurd. [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd [2] http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd -- Alfred M. Szmidt

Re: Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 10:50:51PM +0100, Ondrej Hurt wrote: > Wouldn't it be nice if _most_ of the information spread across web > was at ONE CENRAL PLACE known to everyone ? Sure, but I think that energy should not only put into collecting the bits and pieces, but also to work it over and fill

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-03 Thread Moritz Schulte
Neals guide is more uptodate, so the commands found in that guide should be used. Recently the bootstrapping changed a bit. Previously we used 'serverboot', which took care of starting the server for the root filesystem and the exec server. Therefore only serverboot was given as a multiboot modu

Central Hurd web (Was: question about booting hurd)

2001-12-03 Thread Ondrej Hurt
> > but on Matthew Vernon's 'The easy guide to installing Hurd on a Linux > > box' these commands aren't mentioned > Neal's guide is much more update, follow it's instructions. > > Ryan This points to a more general problem: I think that we should make one "official" Hurd web site with all import

Re: question about booting hurd

2001-12-03 Thread Ryan M. Golbeck
Juanjo Marín <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > but on Matthew Vernon's 'The easy guide to installing Hurd on a Linux > box' these commands aren't mentioned Neal's guide is much more update, follow it's instructions. Ryan -- Ryan Golbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computer Science University Of Waterloo

question about booting hurd

2001-12-03 Thread Juanjo Marín
Hi there, I'm new on Hurd, in the process of installing on my box :-))), and I have the following question: On Neal H Walfield's 'The Hurd Installation Guide' it is said to boot hurd with grub> module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host