RE: Mach unable to boot (?)

[asubedi]

>===== Original Message From Robert Millan <zeratul2@wanadoo.es> =====
>Where did you get the GNU tarball from? contrib/marcus/attic ?

I got it from there.

>The tarball in that directory is obsolete and has a number of known serious
>installation problems.
>
>Our recommended method of installing GNU is by using crosshurd. If for some
>reason you can't use crosshurd (ie, no debian system and uncapable of
>setting up a chroot jail), there's a still-deprecated-but-not-so-old
>tarball in contrib/robertmh. I don't recommend using it though.
>

Hmm... I'll try the tarball in contrib/robertmh. I would use the debian system 
but I am not living in campus dorm over the summer to enjoy the LAN. I am 
manually downloading the stuff from net and burning onto a cdrom nowadays (may 
be I could download the necessary deb packages but the three iso for Debian 
GNU/Hurd would be an overkill...).