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diff --git a/setupgnu.mdwn b/setupgnu.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..42dd77cf --- /dev/null +++ b/setupgnu.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled +[[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]] + +Setup is very easy (You need a GNU/Linux system to install GNU, we are developing an installer for GNU and if you want to help us join us on [[http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss][gnu-system-discuss]]), just follow these steps ... + +## Step 1: Find a home for GNU + +create a partition with minimum of 800 MB (if you want to install programs later you might need to allocate more space) + +It comes with GNU Emacs 21.4, gcc 4.0, gdb 6.3, parted, wget and many more + +Note: 2GB limit for partitions is no more there, it is fixed + +## Step 2: Create GNU Hurd filesystem on the partition + +<pre> # mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hdd6 </pre> + +## Step 3: Grab a snapshot of the GNU from <http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/home/slask/GNU/> or Extended GNU from <http://i-hug.sarovar.org/downloads/GNU/extended/> + +## Step 4: Extract the snapshot to the newly created partition + +<pre> # mount /dev/hdd6 /mnt + # cd /mnt + # tar -jxvf <path to downloaded location>/GNU--2006-01-08.tar.bz2 +</pre> + +Wait for the extraction to complete, depending on the system configuration the time varies. The compressed image is 178MB and it uncompresses to about 750MB + +## Step 5: Configure grub to boot GNU + +This can be tricky since the partition naming is different for linux, grub and hurd + +My configuration look like this ... + +<pre> +title GNU (also known as GNU/Hurd)(Single user) +root (hd0,5) +kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd3s6 -s +module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) +module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) +</pre> + +<pre> +title GNU (also known as GNU/Hurd)(Multi-user) +root (hd0,5) +kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd3s6 +module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${kernel-command-line} --host-priv-port=${host-port} --device-master-port=${device-port} --exec-server-task=${exec-task} -T typed ${root} $(task-create) $(task-resume) +module /lib/ld.so.1 /hurd/exec $(exec-task=task-create) +</pre> + +<pre> +grub linux hurd +hd0,5 hdd6 hd3s6 +</pre> +If you have only one harddisk it will be hd0 for grub wherever you connect it. +But linux and hurd names depend on whether you connect it as primary master +(hda or hd0), primary slave (hdb or hd1) [this is my cdrom drive], secondary + master (hdc or hd2) or secondary slave (hdd or hd3) [this is my precious +Maxtor 2GB hard disk]. + +The partition naming of hurd is similar to BSD slices. hda1 is hd0s1, hda2 is + hd0s2 ... + +In my case the root device is hd0s6 (hdd6) + +## Step 6: Now boot into your brand new GNU System. + +It will do some initial setup and you will get a prompt. +Now reboot into your configured GNU System. + +<pre> +# reboot +</pre> + +## Step 7: Start using your GNU system +Here is the GNU/Hurd users guide. It starts from the basics. <http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/users-guide/using_gnuhurd.html> +Also more Resources at [[Hurd/HurdResources]] + +*Warning! : It is not yet ready for normal use, it is a developer's release.* + +So when you encounter bugs report it to bug-hurd@gnu.org + +Join us on gnu-system-discuss <http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss> to help finish the GNU System. + +or we hang out on IRC at these channels + +#hurd (All GNU/Hurd distribution, the official hurd channel), ##hurd (GNU system discussions), #hurd.in (Hurd developers from India) on irc.Freenode.net + +or join hurd.in community if you are in orkut <http://www.orkut.com/Community.aspx?cmm=12339264> + +-- PraveenA - 07 Sep 2006
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