From c39ed6b654a57dab8f4656b7720a037fe794f827 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joachim Nilsson Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:47:26 +0000 Subject: none --- Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn | 14 ++++++-------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) (limited to 'Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn') diff --git a/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn b/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn index d183f824..e9fad16e 100644 --- a/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn @@ -6,15 +6,13 @@ Items of interest during install not mentioned elsewhere include the following. ## 1. Overview - Where we are going -There are three current methods and one depricated methods to install GNU: tarball (network), bochs virtual machine and the depricated "cross-install". +There are currently three methods to install GNU -* Neal Walfield's [guide](http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html) is excellent and is available in several formats. This is the guide that the Hurd community always references first. The GNU official [installation page](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/install.html) is the canonical reference. [[Distrib/TarballNotes20020816]] +1. Tarball - Neal Walfield's [guide](http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html) is excellent and available in several formats. It is the guide that the Hurd community always references first. The GNU official [installation page](http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/install.html) is the canonical reference. See [[Distrib/TarballNotesHome]] for more info. +2. [[Distrib/BochsEmulator]] is an x86 emulator similar to the propietary [[Distrib/VmWare]] (which is not supported). Alfred M. Szmidt wrote a [great guide](http://ftp.walfield.org/pub/people/ams/hurd/creating_bochs_image_for_gnu.txt). The Bochs project hosts a preinstalled GNU image that is periodicaly updated. You can get the latest one [here](http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580). +3. [CD-ROM iso images](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd) CD-ROM installs are becoming more and more popular. The CDs are based on the most current tarball at release time. See [[Distrib/CDNotesHome]] for more info. -* [CD-ROM iso images](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd) CD-ROM installs are becoming more and more popular. The CDs are based on the most current tarball at release time. [[Distrib/CDNotesJ2]] - -* [[Distrib/BochsEmulator]] is an x86 emulator similar to the propietary [[Distrib/VmWare]] (which is not supported). Alfred M. Szmidt wrote a [great guide](http://ftp.walfield.org/pub/people/ams/hurd/creating_bochs_image_for_gnu.txt). The Bochs project hosts a preinstalled GNU image that is periodicaly updated. You can get the latest one [here](http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12580). - -* Once upon a time there was a `cross-install` script that did an installation while running from another system install. While there are spurious & unintentional references to "cross-installs" this is almost always now intended to mean a tarball install. +* References to a `cross-install` script can nowadays be completely ignored by anyone not a maintainer. It is only used when creating a new tarball. ## 2. Real Estate or Finding A Home @@ -30,7 +28,7 @@ To create a file system, we use `mke2fs` and pass it `-o hurd` to designate the # mke2fs -o hurd /dev/DEVICE -You may wish to add a `-b 4096` option to `mke2fs` (the default is chosen depending on the size of the partition, and the support for block size 1024 is buggy). (the command to check the block size is `tune2fs -l /dev/hda9` under GNU/Linux) +**_Note:_** You may wish to add a `-b 4096` option to `mke2fs` (the default is chosen depending on the size of the partition, and the support for block size 1024 is buggy). The command to check the block size is `tune2fs -l /dev/hda9` under GNU/Linux. ## 3. The Boot Loader - Getting GRUB -- cgit v1.2.3