Hi all !

As Kevin I recently try to install the Hurd, i think i should say
manually (using crosshurd for the base followed by the 2 native-install
+ reboot). Is that what you call the manual install ?
If it is you may be warn that it is currently broken : some package(s)
depends on slang1 package which is not in the repository (tried the 3
one given in tthe debian install-guide + this one :
).

I also have question concerning stability, the system running never
more than one hour yes I know that Hurd is still in an early stage of
development but those crashes generally corrupt my fs and all y can
do is reinstalling the system. I've seen that I may use sync before
reboot but sync seems to freeze everything looks like a vicious
circle. Do you have any idea to enhance the situation ?

thanks, Nicolas.

Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 04:13:27PM -0400, blythe2 (AT) tcnj (DOT) edu wrote:
Not sure if you got my reply to your last question or not, but here's some
thoughts on this one. I'd take that out of there, and also
tack on a -s. The -s will start hurd in single user mode (as you need to
do in teh *manual* installation. Even if you do'nt need to do it for the
IS install, it will prevent the loading of a lot of stuff, maybe give you
some insights).

The rest looks good though. Again, I'd really recommend the manual
installation, as it's (last time I checked) *much* newer. There's an
update as of early July, if I recall.

Hope that helped a bit!
- Nate

I refuse to give up on installing GNU/Hurd.
I have followed the instruction to the letter. I reboot and am
given a choice from GRUB as to what to boot: Ubuntu or GNU/HURD. Upon
choosing Hurd, the initial scripts begin and then the machine reboots.
Very frustrating, but enjoyable:)
I am including my /boot/grub/menu.lst/ file (just the GNU/Hurd
portion).

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing
# hurd installation on /dev/hda2.
title GNU/Hurd (on /dev/hda2)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd0s2
module /hurd/ext2fs.static \
${kernel-command-line} \
${host-port} \
${device-port} \
${exec-task} -T typed ${root} \
$(task-create) $(task-resume)
module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create)
savedefault
boot

When I installed Ubuntu, I left 2 gb free for Hurd. This is on my
primary HD the second partition. Maybe I'm not naming my partition
correctly in GRUB and Hurd?

Cheers,
Kevin
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Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 12:25:56AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 11:57:26PM +0200, Nicolas CANIART wrote:
Hi all !

As Kevin I recently try to install the Hurd, i think i should say
manually (using crosshurd for the base followed by the 2 native-install
+ reboot). Is that what you call the manual install ?
If it is you may be warn that it is currently broken : some package(s)
depends on slang1 package which is not in the repository (tried the 3
one given in tthe debian install-guide + this one :
).

Indeed, this is a known problem. I have recompiled slang1, but the main
Debian ftp server is offline due to relocation right now, so I will not
be able to upload the packages for a while.

I also have question concerning stability, the system running never
more than one hour yes I know that Hurd is still in an early stage of
development but those crashes generally corrupt my fs and all y can
do is reinstalling the system. I've seen that I may use sync before
reboot but sync seems to freeze everything looks like a vicious
circle. Do you have any idea to enhance the situation ?

Try doing any I/ intensive stuff (like compiling) on a seperate
partition, your / partition should then stay pretty clean.

That means I should move /usr and /var to another partition. Does not
seem to be a good idea according to [1]; Most of the fs crash undergone
after apt-getting few stuffs : vi, gcc, etc just things to render the
system more operant
But, ok, I'll try as soon as I can install the Hurd again.

If you cannot sync, your file system translator is probably already
hanging, not much one can do then.

Michael

Another question : is it safe to use Linux' fsck on Hurd fs ?
Can't see no objection (the fs is init. with linux' mke2fs) but it is
said in the doc (can't remember exactly where) that Hurd has its own
extentions to ext2 to handle translators, so

Thanks again,
Nicolas.

[1]

Nicolas CANIART <caniart.nicolas (AT) libertysurf (DOT) frwrites:

Hi Nicolas,

I also have question concerning stability, the system running never
more than one hour yes I know that Hurd is still in an early stage of
development but those crashes generally corrupt my fs and all y can
do is reinstalling the system. I've seen that I may use sync before
reboot but sync seems to freeze everything looks like a vicious
circle. Do you have any idea to enhance the situation ?

Did you add a swap partition to /etc/fstab?