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@@ -23,12 +23,18 @@ requires relatively little Hurd-specific knowledge.
A lot of the "non-Linux support" part of the project has already been done thanks to a previous GSoC, so at least no ground reason should bar the project. A lot of the required udebs are already in Debian or are pending upload, so that building an image and booting it does already work. A preliminary list of what remains is
-* Add initrd support to GNU Mach, unless youpi does it before :) This should not be very complicated by re-using the iopl driver code.
-* hurdify genext2fs to handle 4096 block size by default (see bug #562999) and support translator entries.
-* Port busybox. This needs to be synchronized with kfreebsd people, who have probably already done some work, but that seemingly still hasn't been merged. In the meanwhile, youpi has a version with most of it disabled so a d-i image can actually be built.
-* Port keyboard-setup to configure the xkb driver of the Hurd console
+ * Add initrd support to GNU Mach, unless youpi does it before :) This should not be very complicated by re-using the iopl driver code.
+ * hurdify genext2fs to handle 4096 block size by default (see bug #562999) and support translator entries.
+ * Port busybox. This needs to be synchronized with kfreebsd people, who have probably already done some work, but that seemingly still hasn't been merged. In the meanwhile, youpi has a version with most of it disabled so a d-i image can actually be built.
+ * Port keyboard-setup to configure the xkb driver of the Hurd console
-As a starting point, students might wish to look at the current Debian installer source and build process.
+As a starting point to get a grasp at how the debian installer is built, students might wish to look at the current Debian installer source and build process on Linux:
+
+ * svn co svn://svn.debian.org/d-i/trunk/installer/
+ * cd installer/build
+ * make build_monolithic
+
+The same can be done on hurd-i386 but a few non-uploaded packages are needed, see http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd-i386/README-d-i
Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)