Re: Hurd installation guide

[Tom Hart]

Felix Schmid wrote:

> I was not able to get the Hurd installed on my first try. This is most 
> likely
> due to the absence of a useful installation guide. The link to Neal 
> Walfield's guide
> has been dead for a while.
> However, I found the installation guide on the CD image (K3). A little 
> more helpful,
> but only a little...the link in section 4 (cross install) 
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/hurd/contrib/marcus/gnu-latest.tar.gz
>  is also dead :( 

Cross-install via tarballs is recently deprecated. We just haven't 
gotten around to updating any of the documentation yet! :-)

If you run Debian GNU/Linux, you can install a GNU/Hurd system via the 
crosshurd package (apt-get install crosshurd, I think).

If you're not, then the CD images are what you want.

If you want to play around with a GNU/Hurd system without the bother of 
installation, there is an (old) image of a GNU/Hurd system that you can 
run with the Bochs emulator available on bochs.sourceforge.net.

Best of luck,

-- Tom Hart