gnu-19991025.tar.gz experiences and questions
Hi,
I untarred the gnu-19991025.tar.gz. All worked smoothly.
Manic grins. Clean unmounts (hooray!)
As a RedHat user I am completely unfamiliar with .debs. Where
can I read about how to install and interrogate them?
I thought I'd add emacs, gcc, vim and tcsh, since gnu-19991025
seems to be without them. I downloaded stuff from:
ftp://sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk/Mirrors/ftp.debian.org/pub/debian/dists/sid/main/binary-hurd-i386/base/
Eeek! tripped by dependences. How should I have found out
about the various dependences? How can I know what debs are
already installed?
tcsh_6.08.01-2.2.deb installed ok, but does nothing:
hurd:/# tcsh
exit
hurd:/#
Do I distantly recall that this issue had been addressed?
Shall I try to debug it? Where do the diffs go? Does it tell
me somewhere in the .deb file?
There are hundreds of .debs in the above directories. Where
did they all come from? I was under the impression that they
were (HURD i386) binaries. Has Marcus been mind-bogglingly
busy?
Swap question:
RedHat system has the following /etc/fstab entries
/dev/hda4 /gnu # mount the gnu/hurd partition under gnu/linux
/dev/hda3 swap # extra fields removed for clarity
but when I try to add (the same) swap partition in the
gnu/hurd /etc/fstab like so:
/dev/hd0s4 /
/dev/hd0s3 swap
I get the message "No such file" (or partition). Sorry, I
forget the exact message - it flicked by...
FAQ pointers happily accepted...
Thanks (this has all been much easier than last time),
Paul.
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