Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
Hi, Not wanting to reinvent the wheel. Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few weeks let me know how they did it. I am in the process of planning for the L1 and M1 installation discs. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New

Re: GRUB menu.lst entries.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 13:14:33 +1200, a écrit : > Are these still the entries for menu.lst for booting the Hurd? Yes, but avoid newlines between lines, else the \ won't manage to join them. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +1200, a écrit : > Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few weeks > let me know how they did it. I usually just use crosshurd. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "uns

Re: GRUB menu.lst entries.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 13:14:33 +1200, a écrit : > > Are these still the entries for menu.lst for booting the Hurd? > > Yes, but avoid newlines between lines, else the \ won't manage to join > them. > > Samuel > Thanks, it is what I have

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +1200, a écrit : > > Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few > > weeks let me know how they did it. > > I usually just use crosshurd. > > Samuel > Thanks, but I am having proble

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 23:16:56 +1200, a écrit : > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +1200, a écrit : > > > Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few > > > weeks let me know how they did it. > > > > I

Re: GRUB menu.lst entries.

2009-09-20 Thread Michael Banck
Philip, On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:15:25PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > Thanks, it is what I have been using (without the newlines). What I have > been doing here suggests that crosshurd is not working. If crosshurd is not working, we appreciate bug reports, or at least a more detailed repor

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 23:16:56 +1200, a écrit : > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +1200, a écrit : > > > Would those who have installed the Hurd from scratch in the last few > > > weeks let me know how they did it. > > > > I

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Yes, deboostrap seems to be working atm. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-hurd-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: GRUB menu.lst entries.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Michael Banck wrote: > Philip, > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 11:15:25PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > Thanks, it is what I have been using (without the newlines). What I > > have been doing here suggests that crosshurd is not working. > > If crosshurd is not working, we app

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 01:52:21PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 23:16:56 +1200, a écrit : > > On Sun, 20 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Philip Charles, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 21:25:18 +1200, a écrit : > > > > Would those who have installed the Hurd from scr

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Yes, deboostrap seems to be working atm. > > Samuel > Hi, Playing catchup and making progress. Problem, what is the root password for a new installation. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Michael Banck, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 14:51:00 +0200, a écrit : > Does debootstrap work for the cross-strap use-case (i.e., running it on > GNU/Linux to produce a GNU/Hurd chroot)? I thought #498731 needed to be > fixed first, Ah, possibly yes. As a matter of fact I only used it for chroots, where

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Philip Charles, le Mon 21 Sep 2009 01:36:43 +1200, a écrit : > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Yes, deboostrap seems to be working atm. > > Playing catchup and making progress. Problem, what is the root password > for a new installation. I guess an empty pasword should be fine

Re: Installing the Hurd.

2009-09-20 Thread Philip Charles
On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Philip Charles, le Mon 21 Sep 2009 01:36:43 +1200, a écrit : > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Yes, deboostrap seems to be working atm. > > > > Playing catchup and making progress. Problem, what is the root > > password for a new

any objections from port maintainers to make gcc-4.4 the default?

2009-09-20 Thread Matthias Klose
Besides the open license issue, are there any objections from port maintainers to make GCC-4.4 the default? As a first step that would be a change of the default for C, C++, ObjC, ObjC++ and Fortran. I'm not sure about Java, which show some regressions compared to 4.3. Otoh it's not amymore

Re: any objections from port maintainers to make gcc-4.4 the default?

2009-09-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Matthias Klose, le Sun 20 Sep 2009 19:58:22 +0200, a écrit : > I'm not sure about Java, which show some regressions compared to 4.3. Otoh > it's not amymore the default java compiler for all architectures except > hurd(?) I haven't explicitely tested but I don't know any issue with gcj-4.4 on hu