Arch Hurd

User:Barrucadu

Hi, I am Michael Walker (barrucadu), currently self-appointed documentation guy, LiveCD creator, and sound maintainer.

Contents 1 LiveCD 1.1 Making the livecd 1.1.1 Additional Setup 1.2 Issues 2 Packaging 2.1 GNUstep, Etoile, and Windowmaker 2.2 Sound 2.2.1 To Package 3 Xorg

LiveCD

Making the livecd

Use mkahurd: http://github.com/Barrucadu/home/blob/master/bin/mkahurd

Additional Setup

This should be done for official LiveCDs:

• Copy the installation guide to /arch/guide (replacing some wiki formatting, like ''', with appropriate text formatting)
• Copy Arne Babenhauserheide's translator introduction to livecd

Issues

• Mach/Hurd can't detect partition table changes, thus a reboot is required after partitioning (though the user is notified of this).
• It's unstable, get some swap ASAP after booting, and run `vmstat 5` in another tty.
• locale-gen in the chroot freezes.
• GRUB can't find the BIOS device names for the HDDs, and when run manually, can't find /boot/gnumach. (problem with our GRUB package)

Packaging

GNUstep, Etoile, and Windowmaker

I think that running GNUstep on GNU Hurd would be pretty good, so as soon as we have a gcc-objc package, I'll get started :)

Sound

One of my projects is to get Arch Hurd ready for sound, for when the Hurd finally does get sound support.

To Package

• vorbis-tools
  • libao
    • alsa-lib
• ffmpeg
  • xvidcore
  • alsa-lib (*)
• icecast
• mpd
  • libao (*)
  • ffmpeg (*)
  • libsamplerate
    • libsndfile
      • alsa-lib (*)
• moc
  • jack
    • libsndfile (*)
  • libsamplerate (*)
• cplay
• ncmpcpp

Xorg

Arch Hurd running Xorg 1.8 :)