RE: Building and booting the HURD

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello from Gregg C Levine
Thanks Harley, and folks. 
Neal's pages happened to be what I was looking for. However the
reference to the tar balls sitting on the Alpha server need to be
revised. The symbolic link that's the one marked as 'latest' and
points to the one named thusly:
gnu-20020816.tar.gz, was moved to a directory named attic sometime
last year, in August. 
It also works. 
After installing it on an appropriately formatted partition, also
following the instructions that Neal gave I was able to boot to a
command line. There's more, but I should be able to figure things out
from Neal's document. Like the appropriate translator can't find the
fstab file in the etc directory.

The one that Robert Millan uploaded right around the time the Alpha
server was cracked didn't want to work correctly. This was tested on
two completely different machines. Robert, can you provide the
location where you uploaded the corrected file?

As for building things, following the directions on both sites, the on
GNU.org, and the Savannah site, I was able to download the code stored
in the CVS storage point. Building it will be covered in a later
e-mail.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Harley D. Eades III [mailto:hde@grics.net]
> Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 10:03 PM
> To: Gregg C Levine
> Cc: bug-hurd@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: Building and booting the HURD
> 
> "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net> writes:
> 
> > Hello from Gregg C Levine
> > Once again I am making my once a year efforts to try out the HURD.
Can
> > any of you state what versions of the C compiler series is
> > appropriate, and the binary utilities as well?
> >
> > And the proper boot sequence? Obviously the best way to boot the
HURD
> > is using GRUB. Can someone suggest the proper modular menu entry
for
> > the current version of GRUB?
> All these answered are answered in the install manual here:
>
http://web.walfield.org/pub/people/neal/papers/hurd-installation-guide
/english/hurd-
> install-guide.html
> 
> the faq is here:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/faq.en.html
> 
> Also:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/doc/hurd_toc.html
> 
> And:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hacking-guide/hhg.html
> 
> Enjoy!
> hde