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diff --git a/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn b/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn index 6ac77218..2f1fff41 100644 --- a/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn +++ b/Hurd/InstallNotes.mdwn @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Items of interest during install not mentioned elsewhere include the following. There are three current methods and one depricated methods to install GNU: tarball (network), bochs virtual machine and the depricated "cross-install". -* 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. [[TarballNotes20020816]] -* [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. [[CDNotesJ2]] +* 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]] +* [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]] * [[Bochs]] is an x86 emulator similar to the propietary [[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 & unintentional references to "cross-installs" this is almost always now intended to mean a tarball install. @@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ To mount this from a GNU box: * `build-essential` -- preparing to build software. * `gnu-standards` -- GNU coding and package standards. -* Some packages use an erroneous dependency on `libc6-dev`. This is incorrect because libc6 is specific to GNU/Linux. The corresponding package for GNU is `libc0.3-dev`. If you find a package that is uninstallable due to a libc6[-dev] dependency, please send a bug report with a patch that fixes it. It is important that you don't hack your package system to workaround such problems, because that way you won't be able to spot them when they arrive. See the [[PortingIssues]] for details about the problem and [[BtsFiling]] for details on sending bug reports. +* Some packages use an erroneous dependency on `libc6-dev`. This is incorrect because libc6 is specific to GNU/Linux. The corresponding package for GNU is `libc0.3-dev`. If you find a package that is uninstallable due to a libc6[-dev] dependency, please send a bug report with a patch that fixes it. It is important that you don't hack your package system to workaround such problems, because that way you won't be able to spot them when they arrive. See the [[Distrib/PortingIssues]] for details about the problem and [[Distrib/BtsFiling]] for details on sending bug reports. * Edit your `/etc/inetd.conf` and comment out all the services you don't need. Services that probably don't need to be running are `ftp`, `telnet`, `shell`, `login`, and `exec`. @@ -222,9 +222,9 @@ To mount this from a GNU box: On Sept 20, 2002 [[Main/DeepakGoel]] (a self-proclaimed newbie) posted a link to his personal [step-by-step installation](http://24.197.159.102/~deego/pub/hurd/install-guide/install.txt). The parent directory has additional material. -Tarball Notes: [[TarballNotes20020816]] [[TarballNotes20020523]] +Tarball Notes: [[Distrib/TarballNotes20020816]] [[Distrib/TarballNotes20020523]] -CD-ROM Notes: [[CDNotesJ2]] +CD-ROM Notes: [[Distrib/CDNotesJ2]] Others who wish to post summaries of their installation experiences are encouraged to do so. The installer methods, package dependencies and file locations frequently do change without warning. |