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task #7218: Submission of hurdlx01

Submitter:  kiran chand <kiranchand>
Submitted:  Fri 17 Aug 2007 03:02:26 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Fri 17 Aug 2007 12:00:00 AM UTC Should be Finished on:  Mon 27 Aug 2007 12:00:00 AM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Cancelled Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  Beuc Open/Closed:  Closed
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Mon 27 Aug 2007 01:33:55 PM UTC, comment #10: 

Hi,

Please resubmit the project with:

- a complete description of your project and how it relates to debian-installer, and to the existing Hurd installer. I don't understand right now.

- a complete tarball of the installer project (I assume you have more code than the small shell script you linked to)

- submit it as a non-GNU project, it will move to GNU is the GNU Evaluation team approves your project in a second step.

Regards.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Sat 25 Aug 2007 07:01:37 PM UTC, comment #9: 

As of now the new gnu hurd installer works in a way that it will install the gnu system into the drive and it will prompt the user to insert the first cd of debian-K14 series in order to set up the binaries required for having the X configured successfully. We are planning to develop the installer further in two different ways. The first one is, as Alfred M. Szmidt mentioned, make
the installer work with GNU snapshots. The proceedings for making this installer as a GNU Package is going on. Karl is taking care of the evaluation. Thanks to Karl. The second one is porting the installer completely into the debian installer.

kiran chand <kiranchand>
Fri 24 Aug 2007 08:14:06 PM UTC, comment #8: 

The GNU project already has a project for the GNU system installer, it is part of the GNU Packaging project.  If this is the same effort that someone submited to the -email is unavailable- list, then we should incoperate it into the already existing project.

If this is a Debian specific project, then it should ofcourse not be a GNU project.  From the looks, it only works with Debian, and not GNU and seems very Debian specific.

The team doing the above installer (maybe it is the same as this one) posted that they will port it to the GNU system.  We are eagerly awaiting patches for this.

Alfred M. Szmidt <ams>
Fri 24 Aug 2007 06:52:13 PM UTC, comment #7: 

Michael Banck, the leader of the Debian GNU/Hurd port,
started a thread [1] a few days ago regarding the
LX1 installer and suggesting better integration with d-i.
Kiran responded [2] and indicated

  Parallel to the current installer we are also
  planning to import the current logic into the debian
  installer with the help of Philip and Praveen.
  Raghesh Sir is trying to port the hurd binaries with
  in the current debian installer.

It thus appears to me that the long term goal is not to
fork d-i but to merge changes upstream and develop
within the d-i framework.  As there is at least one Hurd
friendly person on the d-i team, I don't think integration
will be a problem.  Further, as the submitters are not the upstream maintainers of the software and do not intend to
fork, it is unclear to me whether they have the right to
request that d-i become an official gnu project.

Thanks,
Neal

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2007/08/msg00101.html
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2007/08/msg00110.html

Neal H. Walfield <neal>
Tue 21 Aug 2007 08:22:15 PM UTC, comment #6: 

Hi,

Philip Charles is not an admin of the Savannah Hurd project, and his project is non-GNU.

I assume your project is non-GNU then?

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Sun 19 Aug 2007 03:30:39 PM UTC, comment #5: 

Hi

We would like 1.to have the system name as hurdlx .

The plain text version of GPL is included in the
http://gnu.ethz.ch/hurd/.

Mr.Philip Charles who is responsible for GNU Hurd Cds have already did comment in the Discussion.He gave us this project.

kiran chand <kiranchand>
Sun 19 Aug 2007 11:32:40 AM UTC, comment #4: 

I have been producing the Debian GNU/Hurd installation discs since August 2000 and I am now in the process of handing over this task to a team from the University of Calicut.

This team includes kiran chand and CK Raju amongst others.

They have made good progress and the long-term future of the project will be more secure by being part of a university IT department.

Philip Charles

Philip Charles <philipc>
Fri 17 Aug 2007 07:37:59 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Hi,

A couple things:

- do you want to rename the system name from hurdlx01 to hurdlx ?

- please include a copy of the plain text version of the GPL, available from http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.txt, into a file named "COPYING".

- if you want "Official GNU Software" status for your project, please tell a GNU Hurd admin to comment to this tracker saying so.

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Fri 17 Aug 2007 08:16:09 AM UTC, comment #2: 

we will go with the latest one

kiran chand <kiranchand>
Fri 17 Aug 2007 06:12:42 AM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi,

Does it have a relation with task #7106? (I was beginning to look at it yesterday)
Which one should I review (which system name do you prefer?)

Sylvain Beucler <Beuc>
Fri 17 Aug 2007 03:02:26 AM UTC, original submission:  

A new project has been registered at Savannah
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or discards the registration.


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  • Name: hurdlx01
  • System Name:  gnu
  • Type: Official GNU software
  • License: GNU General Public License v2 or later





Description:

The current HURD(k14) works using the 2.1 (Slink) installation system, although it was updated to 2.2 (Potato).  This old installation system unpacked a tarball onto the target HD and then bootedinto this system on the HD.  The GNU installation uses the baseGNU tarball.The Linux
installation ramdisk has been modified to prepare the target HD to receive the baseHURD tarball. The current installer still has life left in itand this could be extended by substituting a 2.6.x kernel.The aim is to builda fully automated GNU native installer under the debian linux box and to build appropriate  tarball (baseGNU.tgz) for the hurd. The Hurd LX installer is the successor of Debian K Series installer(Potato), which finishes the installation with successfully configuring X. It avoids the complicated installation procedure of the previous K14 installer and configures GRUB automatically   .

hurdlx current version :http://gnu.ethz.ch/hurd/
source code:http://gnu.ethz.ch/hurd/pgm.txt


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The official inaugration of the releaser is over details can be found at
http://kiranvirus.wordpress.com


kiran chand <kiranchand>

 

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