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I am pleased to announce version 0.0 of the GNU Hurd, available via
anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu [18.159.0.42] in the file
-/pub/gnu/hurd-0.0.tar.gz (about XXX MB compressed).
+/pub/gnu/hurd-0.0.tar.gz (about 1.2 MB compressed).
This file contains complete source code for the following:
@@ -17,6 +19,8 @@ vmstat, portinfo, devprobe, reboot, halt, fsck, fsck.ufs, mkfs.ufs,
clri.ufs, stati.ufs, getty, rc.
+------
+
In addition, we have prepared a binary distribution of a complete
version 0.0 GNU system corresponding to this Hurd release. This
@@ -42,18 +46,21 @@ This release may be found by anonymous FTP from prep.ai.mit.edu
In that directory, you should find the following files:
-grub-boot.image
+README
SOURCES
INSTALL-binary
-gnu-0.0.tar.gz
+grub-boot.image (1.4 MB, not compressed)
+gnu-0.0.tar.gz (about XXX MB compressed)
SOURCES contains a complete list describing the sources for the
binaries found in the image. INSTALL-binary contains complete
-installation instructions for this release. gnu-0.0.tar.gz hold the
-image of complete system.
+installation instructions for this release. gnu-0.0.tar.gz holds the
+image of complete system. (The files README, SOURCES, and
+INSTALL-binary are also found in the root directory of the gnu-0.0
+release.)
-grub-boot.image is an image of a floppy disk that you will need to
-complete part of the installation instructions.
+grub-boot.image is an image of a 3.5" floppy disk that you will need
+in order to complete part of the installation instructions.
The following free software packages are found in this release:
@@ -65,3 +72,9 @@ ncurses, nvi, patch, ptx, rcs, readline, recode, sed, serverboot,
sharutils, shellutils, tar, termcap, termutils, texinfo, textutils,
time, wdiff.
+
+------
+
+Here are md5sum checksums for the files mentioned in this message:
+
+8338c619d860b71bc4128c9c0fd39d63 grub-boot.image