Re: It works :-)

[Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de>]

On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 09:59:55PM +0100, Wolfgang Jährling wrote:
> 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. :-)

Good decision :)
 
> 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.

Yes, after native-install one reboot is recommended.

> 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.

ae gets confused when editing after a displayed overlong line. It's an ae
bug.

> I hope that vim will work.

It does, but probably not the version in the ftp archive. Brent posted an
URL some time ago. Or use nvi until I uploaded a fixed vim.
 
> Everytime I tried to save a file I got the message "failed to
> write file [filename]".

that's bogus, the file is saved anyway. Another ae bug.

> But my biggest problem is that I have to type everything with
> us-keyboard-layout. How can I use an alternate keymap?

Get a us keyboard :) seriously, there is a hack which does it. Get 
 
> PS: Is there anything like a GNU/Hurd-Webring?

I don't think so. Do you want to start one? Design a nice banner and
volunteer to coordinate.

Thanks,
Marcus

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