I installed the Hurd from the Debian packages last night. I encountered the "no root node" problem reported earlier; downgrading Linux e2fsprogs to the slink version fixed this. Otherwise it seems OK. (And BTW, grub is just wonderful!) -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % gaia@iki.fi % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ..." (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)