diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'hurd/running/gnu')
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/gnu/create_an_image.mdwn | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/gnu/setup.mdwn | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | hurd/running/gnu/universal_package_manager.mdwn | 27 |
3 files changed, 25 insertions, 22 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/running/gnu/create_an_image.mdwn b/hurd/running/gnu/create_an_image.mdwn index 42379f45..c7a97a4e 100644 --- a/hurd/running/gnu/create_an_image.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/gnu/create_an_image.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,12 @@ -[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] -[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +[[!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]]."]]"""]] +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] Creating a bootable qemu image from a root filesystem and bootloader @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Creating a bootable qemu image from a root filesystem and bootloader create the necessary partitions (root and swap partitions boot, home ... if required) -4. Create a file syatem for the root partiotion +4. Create a file system for the root partition mke2fs /dev/hda1 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ Creating a bootable qemu image from a root filesystem and bootloader 6. Copy the file system from the host machine to the mounted directory (use a compressed file system to make the copying faster) - Grab the GNU spapshot from ams' site + Grab the GNU snapshot from ams' site <http://www.update.uu.se/~ams/home/slask/GNU/> scp <user>@<host>:<path to the compressed file system> disk @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Creating a bootable qemu image from a root filesystem and bootloader poweroff -10. To make the file syatem bootable download a grub floppy image +10. To make the file system bootable download a grub floppy image <http://hurd.in/pub/Hurd/HurdOnVMware/grub.img> diff --git a/hurd/running/gnu/setup.mdwn b/hurd/running/gnu/setup.mdwn index 6ff32630..2fb30c7b 100644 --- a/hurd/running/gnu/setup.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/gnu/setup.mdwn @@ -1,14 +1,14 @@ -[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] -[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +[[!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]]."]]"""]] +[[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 ... +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 diff --git a/hurd/running/gnu/universal_package_manager.mdwn b/hurd/running/gnu/universal_package_manager.mdwn index 440f1122..e58a2058 100644 --- a/hurd/running/gnu/universal_package_manager.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/gnu/universal_package_manager.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,13 @@ -[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2007, 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] -[[meta license="""[[toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[toggleable +[[!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]]."]]"""]] +[[GNU Free Documentation License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] ## Mission @@ -19,10 +20,10 @@ Basically all package management schemes follow similar approach, it will have a There can be both aproaches - * Re-implement rpm, dpkg... to recognise stow as backend instead of its own data store. In that case we will have to re implement, apt-rpm, yum ... - * Implement a translator which reads stow and show it as an rpm data store for yum, deb data store for apt-get ... + * Re-implement rpm, dpkg... to recognise stow as backend instead of its own data store. In that case we will have to re-implement, apt-rpm, yum ... + * Implement a translator which reads stow and show it as an rpm data store for yum, deb data store for apt-get ... -One goal is obviously choice of packaging and hence availability of more packages. Also this gives maintainers a chioce to continue builing packages for GNU in the format they are already familiar with. The second goal is to demonstrate the flexibility GNU offers in implementing functionality in filesystems (open/read/write interface). +One goal is obviously choice of packaging and hence availability of more packages. Also this gives maintainers a choice to continue building packages for GNU in the format they are already familiar with. The second goal is to demonstrate the flexibility GNU offers in implementing functionality in filesystems (open/read/write interface). ## Why? @@ -39,7 +40,7 @@ With the increased flexibility in implementing filesystems as per the requiremen ## How? - * Installtion of a package is just drag the pacakage (be it a tgz, rpm, deb or an exe) and drop it to the package manager. + * Installation of a package is just drag the package (be it a tgz, rpm, deb or an exe) and drop it to the package manager. * apt-cache search vim --> ls -al /packages/meta/ |grep vim * apt-get install vim --> install vim @@ -76,12 +77,12 @@ just writing the new translator. ## Initial idea -A bit complex than the earlier scheme but it is more exciting and we can look at this schem seriously once we have the simple scheme working. +A bit more complex than the earlier scheme but it is more exciting and we can look at this scheme seriously once we have the simple scheme working. All packages are installed at `/packages/binary/<packagename>/<packageversion>`. -For eaxmple vim 6.4 version can be installed from source like +For example vim 6.4 version can be installed from source like # cd vim64 # ./configure --prefix=/packages/binary/vim/6.4 @@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ Now if you have another vim version, say 7.0 then just follow the steps # make # make install -You have 2 versions of vim and how can you sepcify which one is the current version? You can symlink the current version to select the version you would like to see as default +You have 2 versions of vim and how can you specify which one is the current version? You can symlink the current version to select the version you would like to see as default # ln -s /packages/binary/vim/7.0 /packages/vim/current @@ -127,7 +128,7 @@ OK. I will give you steps. i. Install a GNU System by folowing [[these_instructions|setup]] -ii. Read about GNU Design: [[Towards_a_New_Strategy_of_OS_Design|documentation/hurd-paper]] +ii. Read about GNU Design: [[Towards_a_New_Strategy_of_OS_Design|hurd-paper]] iii. Read about translators <http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-doc-translator> @@ -140,7 +141,7 @@ v. Add your name below and give a shout in the list. Add your comments here -## Interesting? +## Interested? To join the project just list your name below. @@ -151,3 +152,5 @@ To join the project just list your name below. 5. Nidhin Raghavan 6. Ajish.B 7. Ambili.B + 8. Abhradip Mukherjee + 9. Ermenegildo Fiorito |