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| author | Thomas Bushnell <thomas@gnu.org> | 1997-06-23 17:33:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Thomas Bushnell <thomas@gnu.org> | 1997-06-23 17:33:45 +0000 |
| commit | dd59c0790227cbe762d01625c184cea9387fec4d (patch) | |
| tree | c52a3a9974da6ae8dee3749bb87569736275ba57 /release/INSTALL-binary | |
| parent | 5424a78b952abb3eb78f57b324bab03b7f89d230 (diff) | |
Mon Jun 23 11:47:51 1997 Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG <thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* INSTALL-binary (STEP I): Tell to use e2os if the filesystem was
made with Linux.
Mon Jun 16 11:56:33 1997 Thomas Bushnell, n/BSG <thomas@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
* Makefile (dist-links): Make $(dist-root)/boot/grub and
$(dist-root)/share/misc. Reported by Marcus G. Daniels
(marcus@cathcart.sysc.pdx.edu).
Diffstat (limited to 'release/INSTALL-binary')
| -rw-r--r-- | release/INSTALL-binary | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/release/INSTALL-binary b/release/INSTALL-binary index 9c1f348d..d13beb8c 100644 --- a/release/INSTALL-binary +++ b/release/INSTALL-binary @@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ Start with a system already running a GNU/Linux system: swap too. Extract the binary image onto the new partition using tar; make sure you sue the `p' option to tar. + You need to set the "owning OS" field for this filesystem to "hurd"; + otherwise you will not be able to use Hurd-related extensions on + it. (And using those extensions is required on the root + filesystem.) Run the command `e2os DEVICE hurd' after the + filesystem is unmounted in order to accomplish this. + If you do not have a system running BSD or a GNU/Linux system, you can install using the NetBSD boot floppies. To do this, you do NOT need to install NetBSD; you will just be using their boot floppies |