installing from scratch - chicken and egg problem

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

since my filesystem trashed, I have to reinstall HURD on my laptop. I
have an older ISO image here.
I also see that the stable ones are of the past year:
https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/stable/hurd-i386/iso-cd/

Once installed, if I try to upgrade the system, I get a chicken-and-egg
problem: libc wants recent HURD kernel, recent HURD kernel wants libc
and this is not checked before as a dependency, but during installation.
Forcing, broke the system.

I can restart, I lost all my data anyway, but are there perhaps current
images? or another way around this issue?

Riccardo