Re: Problems installing the Hurd

[David Neary]

oberg@SoftHome.net wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> What is going on with those postinst files?  When I mount the drive up in
> linux the files are normal... but in either single user or multiuser mode
> under the hurd they appear as above.
> 
> If anyone has any ideas for either the cross-install error above or the
> postinst file problems, please let me know.

Hi there,

I'm hardly the ideal person to answer, being a relative HURD newbie
myself, but this looks like a fairly obvious filesystem problem to me.
How did you create the partition you're using for your HURD install? Was
the FS created with -o sparse_super and -o hurd? If not, I believe that
there is a script around which will dynamically change the FS without
needing a reinstall - or maybe you'll feel a reinstall is easier. In any
case, you can find out with /sbin/dumpe2fs under linux.

If things are OK under Linux, and you've created the FS with the right
options, then could this be a bug against the HURD's implemenmtation of
ext2fs? Just asking...

>  - Michael Oberg
>    oberg@softhome.net

Cheers,
Dave Neary.