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authorJoachim Nilsson <joachim@gnufans.org>2003-04-03 18:47:26 +0000
committerJoachim Nilsson <joachim@gnufans.org>2003-04-03 18:47:26 +0000
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@@ -6,15 +6,13 @@ Items of interest during install not mentioned elsewhere include the following.
## <a name="1_Overview_Where_we_are_going"> 1. Overview - Where we are going </a>
-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 &amp; 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.
## <a name="2_Real_Estate_or_Finding_A_Home"> 2. Real Estate or Finding A Home </a>
@@ -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.
## <a name="3_The_Boot_Loader_Getting_GRUB"> </a> 3. The Boot Loader - Getting GRUB