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-rw-r--r--hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn3
-rw-r--r--hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn24
-rw-r--r--hurd/running/debian/faq/df.mdwn12
-rw-r--r--hurd/running/qemu.mdwn6
4 files changed, 38 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn
index 15ca9c83..62fd3574 100644
--- a/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/after_install.mdwn
@@ -29,7 +29,8 @@ If the NIC was detected:
# settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 192.168.1.3 -g 192.168.1.1 -m 255.255.255.0
-In order to use DHCP, you need to install the `dhcp-client` package and run `dhclient eth0` etc.
+Or read about how to configure [[DHCP]].
+
# Setup GRUB
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f316981d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/dhcp.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 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]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!tag open_issue_porting]]
+
+In order to use DHCP, you need to install the `ifup` and `isc-dhcp-client`
+packages, and manually create the following two symbolic links:
+
+ # ln -s ../rcS.d/S06ifupdown-clean ../rcS.d/S11networking /etc/rc.boot/
+
+During execution at boot time, the `S11networking` script will emit some error
+messages while trying to configure the loopback interface. These are not
+fatal.
+
+Debian GNU/Hurd doesn't currently execute's Debian standard `/etc/rcS.d/*` boot
+scripts, but has its own `/libexec/rc` script -- which integrates scripts from
+`/etc/rc.boot/` instead.
diff --git a/hurd/running/debian/faq/df.mdwn b/hurd/running/debian/faq/df.mdwn
index 4de232da..bbd3a7b9 100644
--- a/hurd/running/debian/faq/df.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/debian/faq/df.mdwn
@@ -8,6 +8,12 @@ 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]]."]]"""]]
-There is no `/etc/mtab`, so just running `df` will yield an error. Pass `df` a
-path like `df /` or `df ./` to see the disk usage of that particular file
-system.
+There is no `/etc/mtab` (due to dynamic translator startup, its content is hard
+to define actually, see
+[[the mtab GSoC project idea|community/gsoc/project_ideas/mtab]]),
+so just running `df` will yield the following error.
+
+ df: cannot read table of mounted file systems
+
+Pass `df` a path like `df /` or `df ./` to see the disk usage of that particular
+file system.
diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
index aea20ae8..4766b2be 100644
--- a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
+++ b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ Check if your CPU supports kvm:
#### If you don't have hardware support (slow):
$ apt-get install qemu
+Do not enable kernel-kqemu, as that assumes some particular behavior from the guest kernel, which we are reluctant to artificially add to gnumach.
+
#### If you have hardware support (recommended):
$ apt-get install qemu-kvm
$ modprobe kvm
@@ -228,9 +230,7 @@ If you just want to access the internet from within QEMU, you can setup pfinet f
# settrans -afgp /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 10.0.2.15 -g 10.0.2.2 -m 255.255.255.0
# echo "nameserver 10.0.2.3" > /etc/resolv.conf
-Alternately DHCP does work now:
-
- # dhclient eth0
+If you are on [[Debian GNU/Hurd|debian]], you can even use [[debian/DHCP]].
To get ssh working: