Re: It works :-)

[Chris Lingard <chris@highludworth.freeserve.co.uk>]

Hello Wolfgang,

Welcome.  I am just starting with the Hurd too.  You do not need to add a user.
Copy you group and passwd from Linux to Hurd.  If your home account is in
partition /home, just settrans it to your Hurd.  For example, and on my machine:

settrans  /home  /hurd/ext2fs  /dev/hd0s2

Just put the swap partition in the fstab.  There is vim, (which I do not use),
and also emacs.

See you soon,

Chris

Wolfgang Jährling wrote:

> Hello! ("oh, now, him again")
>
> It seems that GNU/Hurd will never work on my old i486-machine
> because the hard-disc is a little bit damaged (but I'll try it
> again if I have time)... So I removed my SuSE Linux on my i586
> and installed GNU/Hurd there. It worked fine. :-)
>
> Well, not realy, I got the "every-second-key-is-lost-bug" after
> seting a translater for my Linux-partition ("settrans -c /linux
> /hurd/ext2fs /dev/hd1s5") and I did't remember how to fix this
> (I'll check the mailing-list-archives later). I rebooted and it
> worked again. I tried to create a user and activate a
> swap-partition, but the first problem was that "ae", the only
> editor (I think "ed" can't be called an editor) I could find
> sometimes displayed the cursor in the wrong line which was very
> confusing. I checked if TERM was set to "mach" and yes, it was.
>
> I hope that vim will work.
>
> Everytime I tried to save a file I got the message "failed to
> write file [filename]". But I was logged in as "root" and the
> permissions of the files were "-rw-rw-rw". I booted into Linux
> to edit the files but when I opened them from there, the
> modifications I did under the Hurd were written to the files...
>
> Strange...
>
> But my biggest problem is that I have to type everything with
> us-keyboard-layout. How can I use an alternate keymap?
>
> Cheers
> Wolfgang
>
> PS: Is there anything like a GNU/Hurd-Webring?
>
> --
> Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they
> use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling
> them?
>
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