New user install report
All,
I wanted to get this email off before I forgot the problems I
encountered during installation. I followed Matthew Vernon's
installation guide.
* Matthew's guide is excellent, but it needs to be updated to reflect
the new --download option to cross-install. I didn't discover it
until *after* I'd been through much pain downloading all those
packages by hand!
* HURD filesystems needed to be created with -O none to avoid making
a filesystem with 2.2 enhancements (I think -O none should really
be the default when specifying -o...);
* I needed to download a new version of GRUB to boot the hurd; I
fetched it from alpha.gnu.org;
* I needed to remove modules/gconv from the list of optional packages
to install in cross-install;
* ncurses4 has moved to oldlibs/, the correct ncurses is now
libncurses5. These changes also had to be made to cross-install;
All of those changes have been on this list before at one time or
another, but not in one place, and they're still current issues as far
as I know. These last few haven't been reported before, I think:
* /usr/info/dir is expected to be present by the postinstall of
textutils (among others), unfortunately it does not exist and the
/sbin/install-info script fails because of it. The solution is to
touch /usr/info/dir, then run /sbin/clean-info. The postinstalls
then run correctly.
My first attempt at fixing this problem was to touch /usr/info/dir
and then run the postinstall, I'm almost certain this somehow
caused the machine to lock up.
* base-files tries to create /var/mail, but it already exists as a
symlink. Removing it and rerunning dpkg --configure works.
I think that's all for now.
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