[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2010 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]]."]]"""]] ## Hurd Debian-Installer My [proposal](http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2010/HurdDebianInstaller/JeremieKoenig) to work on porting d-i on Hurd as a [Google Summer of Code](http://code.google.com/soc/) student has been accepted by the Debian project. I will be keeping track of my progress on this page. ### Latest news (eg., notes to myself for tomorrow morning) * *busybox*: patches [posted](http://lists.debian.org/debian-bsd/2010/05/msg00048.html) to debian-{bsd,hurd}@l.d.o. I should notify the upstream list and #323670. * while not going very var, *d-i images do boot* when using hurd-udeb and ext2fs.static from the latest pkg-hurd, plus my own modification to add the /lib/ld.so symlink to it. Should it be done there? Is ldconfig supposed to create it when the d-i images are built? Anyway, I'll try to get debian-installer to start. ### Mostly done #### Week 1 (2010-05-24) * genext2fs: patches [submitted](http://bugs.debian.org/562999) which add support for all block sizes and choosing them at runtime. * busybox: started porting the upstream and Debian package to Hurd and FreeBSD * rebuilding hurd-udeb from the pkg-hurd version and adding a ld.so link to the initrd fixes the exec translator crashing on startup. (BTW would there be a mean to detect this from the libdiskfs bootstrap code and report it ?) ### Roadmap #### Week 2 (2010-05-31) * see what breaks in the installer and fix the problems one by one (install-time netcfg, cdrom detection, whatever) * start working on mach initrd support #### Week 3 (2010-06-07) * try to get the busybox changes merged upstream and integrated into the debian package * tweak the hurd debian package to handle what native-install used to be required for #### Week 4 (2010-06-14) * Hurd-specific partitionning (use supported fs types and options) * grub2 installation #### Week 5-6 (2010-06-21) * unexpected stuff * cleanup * call for testing * fix bugs At this point we would have a basic but working installer. Hopefully the summer would not be over yet... #### Week 7-8 (2010-07-05) * hurd console * better DHCP support during and after installation * support more types of installation images #### Week 9-10 (2010-07-19) * give a shot at the graphical installer ? #### Week 11-12 (2010-08-02) * test, fix, document