installer for the hurd

[Karl Berry]

A group in India has produced an installer for the Hurd which they are
offering to GNU.  It consists of an .iso with the basic binaries and a
shell script to do the installation.

My machines aren't in a state where I can try it myself.
Can anyone else give it a whirl?

Here's the information they've provided.

Thanks,
Karl


** Package name and version:
Package Name: Hurd LX Installer
Version     : 0.1

** Author Full Name <Email>:
Kiran Chand K, k.kiranchand/gmail/com
Raghesh A, raghesh.a/gmail/com

** URL to home page (if any):
http://projecthurd.googlepages.com

** URL to sources (if any):
http://gnu.ethz.ch/hurd

** Brief description of the package:
The Hurd LX installer is the successor of Debian K Series
installer(Potato), which finishes the installation with successfully
configuring X. It avoids the complicated installation procedure of
the previous K14 installer.

* Similar projects:
Please explain what motivated you to write your package, and search
at least the Free Software Directory (http://www.gnu.org/directory/)
for projects similar to yours.  If any exist, please also explain
what the principal differences are.

The current HURD(k14) works using the 2.1 (Slink) installation
system, although it was updated to 2.2 (Potato). This old
installation system unpacked a tarball onto the target Hard Drive and
then booted into this system on the Hard Drive. The GNU installation
uses the baseGNU tarball. The Linux installation ramdisk has been
modified to prepare the target HD to receive the baseHURD tarball.

We created a new installer which avoids the complicated installation
procedure of the previous K14 installer. The installed system boots into
X directly.

* Any other information, comments, or questions:
The project is not completed yet. Currently the script will not check
for wrong inputs given by the user. The changes will be incorporated
soon.

The detection of other operating systems installed in the system is not
automated completely. We are planning to use some os prober tool.

[Praveen Arimbrathodiyil]

Hi Karl,
2007/8/21, Karl Berry <karl@...>:
> A group in India has produced an installer for the Hurd which they are
> offering to GNU.  It consists of an .iso with the basic binaries and a
> shell script to do the installation.
>
> My machines aren't in a state where I can try it myself.
> Can anyone else give it a whirl?

I have been interacting with the team and I have tested it on my
machine and it worked. The installer is currently designed to work
with Debian GNU/Hurd. Now they are working to make it work with the
GNU snapshots provided by ams (http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/GNU/).

Cheers
Praveen

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[Gianluca Guida]

Hello,

On Aug 21, 2007, at 1:04 AM, Karl Berry wrote:

> A group in India has produced an installer for the Hurd which they are
> offering to GNU.  It consists of an .iso with the basic binaries and a
> shell script to do the installation.
>
> My machines aren't in a state where I can try it myself.
> Can anyone else give it a whirl?

I was just about to re-install the hurd.

I'll try it ASAP.

Gianluca

[arnuld-2]

> On 8/21/07, Praveen A <pravi.a@...> wrote:

> Hi Karl,
> 2007/8/21, Karl Berry <karl@...>:
> > A group in India has produced an installer for the Hurd which they are
> > offering to GNU.  It consists of an .iso with the basic binaries and a
> > shell script to do the installation.
> >
> > My machines aren't in a state where I can try it myself.
> > Can anyone else give it a whirl?

Praveen sent me the L1X CD but i can't install it. it behaves as if
there are no files on the CD to copy to my hard-disk. this is my
hardware:

AMD64 Athlon
ASUS K8V-MX Motherboard with chipsets VIA K8M800 and VT8237
Seagate 80 GB ATA (not Serial-ATA)

BTW, i also tried K14 CD#1, that does install but then i can not do
anything with that installation. i have already described the problems
here:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2007/08/msg00037.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2007/08/msg00038.html

in Qemu, i too have same problems (except the 2nd one)



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[Filip Brcic]

2007/8/21, arnuld <geek.arnuld@...>:
> AMD64 Athlon
> ASUS K8V-MX Motherboard with chipsets VIA K8M800 and VT8237
> Seagate 80 GB ATA (not Serial-ATA)

I couldn't make GNU Mach boot on my AMD64 (AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor
3000+). It just froze whenever I tried to boot it native (I guess that
happens somewhere around GDT, paging and stuff like that). Under Qemu
it works just fine (I am using AMS's tarball distro). Maybe I'll
download this new L1x CD and give it a try. But I doubt that it will
boot on my CPU (can also try on my fathers Intel Dual Core Duo laptop,
since it didn't boot GNU Mach, either).

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[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > A group in India has produced an installer for the Hurd which
   > they are offering to GNU.  It consists of an .iso with the basic
   > binaries and a shell script to do the installation.
   >
   > My machines aren't in a state where I can try it myself.  Can
   > anyone else give it a whirl?

   I have been interacting with the team and I have tested it on my
   machine and it worked. The installer is currently designed to work
   with Debian GNU/Hurd. Now they are working to make it work with the
   GNU snapshots provided by ams (http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/GNU/).

Lovley! I cannot wait for the patches!

[Dylan Rogers]

Will all of this eventuate in the final product of a ``GNU
Distribution"?  An installable system that will be usable?

I am ignorant of the timing.  When is this being planned for completion?

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   Will all of this eventuate in the final product of a ``GNU
   Distribution"?  An installable system that will be usable?

That would be the plan.

   I am ignorant of the timing.  When is this being planned for completion?

When it is done.

[Michael J. Flickinger]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 08:20:55PM +0200, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:

>    > A group in India has produced an installer for the Hurd which
>    > they are offering to GNU.  It consists of an .iso with the basic
>    > binaries and a shell script to do the installation.
>    >
>    > My machines aren't in a state where I can try it myself.  Can
>    > anyone else give it a whirl?
>
>    I have been interacting with the team and I have tested it on my
>    machine and it worked. The installer is currently designed to work
>    with Debian GNU/Hurd. Now they are working to make it work with the
>    GNU snapshots provided by ams (http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/GNU/).
>
> Lovley! I cannot wait for the patches!
>
>

Likewise.

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[Richard Stallman]

Please report problems in this installer to the developers -- not just
to this list!  I don't think the developers are on this list.

The developers are

Kiran Chand K <k.kiranchand@...>, Raghesh A <raghesh.a@...>

[Michael Banck-3]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:15:13PM -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> Please report problems in this installer to the developers -- not just
> to this list!  I don't think the developers are on this list.

It is well known that GNU Mach doesn't work on most or all amd64
machines, this is not a problem with the installer.


Michael