Re: total newbie questions

[Kenneth Stailey]

Thanks.  I do notice that the Debian packages are all missing now that I look. 
Are they going to be re-released at some point and if so is there any sort of
schedule?



--- Moritz Schulte <moritz@duesseldorf.ccc.de> wrote:
> Kenneth Stailey <kstailey@yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > IIRC Linux and Hurd use fdisk partitions to hold indivdual
> > filesystems rather than the BSD approach of using only one fdisk
> > partion to hold everything and sub-partitioning that in the BSD way.
> > If this is wrong hit me with a clue.  It just seems so gross and
> > stupid to only have four partitions per disk that I'm not sure if it
> > is true.
> 
> Well, you can have 4 primary partitions, but much more logical
> partitions, which live inside an extended partition.
> 
> > After that it's install Debian and follow the instructions on
> > http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install
> 
> You better try this installation guide:
>
http://web.walfield.org/papers/hurd-installation-guide/english/hurd-install-guide.html
> 
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