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+## Hurd Debian-Installer
+
+My [proposal](http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/HurdDebianInstaller/JeremieKoenig)
+to work on porting d-i on Hurd
+as a [Google Summer of Code](http://code.google.com/soc/) student
+has been accepted by the Debian project.
+
+I will be keeping track of my progress on this page.
+
+### Latest news (eg., notes to myself for tomorrow morning)
+
+  * *busybox*:
+    patches [posted](http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2010/05/msg00048.html)
+    to debian-{bsd,hurd}@l.d.o.
+    I should notify the upstream list and #323670.
+  * while not going very var, *d-i images do boot*
+    when using hurd-udeb and ext2fs.static from the latest pkg-hurd,
+    plus my own modification to add the /lib/ld.so symlink to it.
+    Should it be done there?
+    Is ldconfig supposed to create it when the d-i images are built?
+    Anyway, I'll try to get debian-installer to start.
+
+### Mostly done
+
+#### Week 1 (2010-05-24)
+
+* genext2fs: patches [submitted](http://bugs.debian.org/562999)
+  which add support for all block sizes and choosing them at runtime.
+* busybox: started porting the upstream and Debian package to Hurd and FreeBSD
+* rebuilding hurd-udeb from the pkg-hurd version
+  and adding a ld.so link to the initrd
+  fixes the exec translator crashing on startup.
+  (BTW would there be a mean to detect this from the libdiskfs bootstrap code
+  and report it ?)
+
+### Roadmap
+
+#### Week 2 (2010-05-31)
+
+* see what breaks in the installer and fix the problems one by one
+  (install-time netcfg, cdrom detection, whatever)
+* start working on mach initrd support
+
+#### Week 3 (2010-06-07)
+
+* try to get the busybox changes merged upstream
+  and integrated into the debian package
+* tweak the hurd debian package to handle
+  what native-install used to be required for
+
+#### Week 4 (2010-06-14)
+
+* Hurd-specific partitionning (use supported fs types and options)
+* grub2 installation
+
+#### Week 5-6 (2010-06-21)
+
+* unexpected stuff
+* cleanup
+* call for testing
+* fix bugs
+
+At this point we would have a basic but working installer.
+Hopefully the summer would not be over yet...
+
+#### Week 7-8 (2010-07-05)
+
+* hurd console
+* better DHCP support during and after installation
+* support more types of installation images
+
+#### Week 9-10 (2010-07-19)
+
+* give a shot at the graphical installer ?
+
+#### Week 11-12 (2010-08-02)
+
+* test, fix, document
+
+