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diff --git a/hurd/running/gnu/setup.mdwn b/hurd/running/gnu/setup.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 2fb30c7b..00000000 --- a/hurd/running/gnu/setup.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,84 +0,0 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] - -[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable -id="license" text="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 [gnu-system-discuss](http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/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 - - # mke2fs -o hurd /dev/hdd6 - -## 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 - - # mount /dev/hdd6 /mnt - # cd /mnt - # tar -jxvf <path to downloaded location>/GNU--2006-01-08.tar.bz2 - -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 ... - - 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 $(exec-task=task-create) - - title GNU (also known as GNU/Hurd)(Multi-user) - root (hd0,5) - kernel /boot/gnumach.gz root=device:hd3s6 - module /hurd/ext2fs.static --multiboot-command-line=${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) - - grub linux hurd - hd0,5 hdd6 hd3s6 - -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. - - # reboot - -## 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> - -*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. |