Re: GNU Hurd Installation

[Thomas Schwinge]

Hello!

On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 12:40:13PM +0100, Jakub Daniel wrote:
> I am trying to get GNU Hurd (Debian's L1) to work in qemu and I follow the
> instructions on the Debian's site.

Great, please continue to report how it works!


> Copying baseGNU to the virtual disk works. Even booting got through but
> when
> I try to run native-install it never gets to the very end. First time it
> froze
> on `sed' package, the other time on `sysv-rc'.

How much memory did you configure for the QEMU system?  It may simply be
-- I've seen this myself -- that the system runs out of memory, as at the
native-install stage (I think at least) swap is not yet configured and
enabled.  What I've been doing is: boot (with -s), MAKEDEV hdWHATEVER in
/dev/ for the swap device, run /hurd/mach-defpager, followed by swapon
/dev/hdWHATEVER.  Does this help?


> Re-running the installation
> is
> not possible just because the script throws a message that the system is
> already installed.

Yes, that's (unfortunately) a known limitation of the native-install
script.


Regards,
 Thomas

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