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diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/debian_installer.mdwn
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@@ -21,6 +21,15 @@ Some preliminary work has been done, see
 The goal is to have the Debian Installer fully working on the Hurd.  It
 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
+
+As a starting point, students might wish to look at the current Debian installer source and build process.
+
 Possible mentors: Samuel Thibault (youpi)
 
-Exercise: Try to get one piece of the installer running on Hurd.
+Exercise: Fix a couple of Hurd issues in busybox.