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| author | Lucas Nussbaum <lnu@gnu.org> | 2004-01-28 22:24:00 +0000 |
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| committer | Lucas Nussbaum <lnu@gnu.org> | 2004-01-28 22:24:00 +0000 |
| commit | 6f6ace3757c00d9097a0b03d1e22ef2b05b1176e (patch) | |
| tree | 6122f4d6b9b16638bee69a1f10a84d177c316860 /Hurd | |
| parent | 4e6a24509c8798edfd780c05b07f894f551e584b (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn b/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn index c7cd83f1..ce640904 100644 --- a/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn @@ -8,11 +8,12 @@ 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 currently three methods to install GNU +There are currently four methods to install GNU 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). +2. [[Distrib/BochsEmulator]] is an x86 emulator similar to the propietary [[Distrib/VmWare]] (which is not supported). See the [[Distrib/BochsEmulator]] page for more info. 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. +4. The [crosshurd](http://packages.debian.org/crosshurd/) Debian package, which can be used instead of a tarball to install the base system. This is the recommended way to proceed. * 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. |