QEmu Installation Guide

This is a rough guide to installing Debian GNU/Hurd on qemu, created by Timo Lindfors. The steps described are highly experimental and will probably need tweaking before you get anything that works.

1. sudo apt-get install qemu grub-disk
2. wget http://ftp.gnuab.org/pub/debian-cd/K10/debian-K10-hurd-i386-CD1.iso
3. dd if=/dev/zero of=debian-gnu-hurd-hdd.img bs=1M seek=3000 count=0
4. qemu -boot d -cdrom debian-K10-hurd-i386-CD1.iso -hda debian-gnu-hurd-hdd.img
5. Hit ENTER to "boot:" prompt
6. Hit ENTER to "Release Notes"
7. "Initial Keyboard Configuration": choose qwerty/fi-latin1
8. "Partition a Hard Disk": ENTER ENTER y ENTER
9. create two primary partitions: 2500M for / and rest for swap.
10. "Initialize and Activate a Swap Partition": choose /dev/hda2
11. "Initialize a GNU/Hurd Partition": choose /dev/hda1 and mount it as /
12. "Install the Base System": hit ENTER and choose cdrom, choose "list"
13. Choose "Reboot the system" and then kill qemu at "boot:" prompt
14. zcat /usr/share/grub-disk/grub-0.95-i386-pc.ext2fs.gz > grub-0.95-i386-pc.ext2fs
15. qemu -boot a -cdrom debian-K10-hurd-i386-CD1.iso -hda debian-gnu-hurd-hdd.img -fda grub-0.95-i386-pc.ext2fs -M isapc or qemu -boot a -cdrom debian-K10-hurd-i386-CD1.iso -hda debian-gnu-hurd-hdd.img -fda grub-0.95-i386-pc.ext2fs -isa
16. Choose the first grub option, "GNU".
17. Don't worry about error messages. just type "./native-install" and ENTER.
18. Type 8 and Helsinki.
19. run "reboot"
20. Choose "GNU" from grub wait for system to boot. now type "./native-install" for the second time
21. Choose "1. Dialog" frontend.
22. Choose "3. medium"
23. "Do you want system wide readable home directories?" pick "yes"
24. "Should tcpd setup paranoid hosts.allow and hosts.access" pick "yes"
25. Type "reboot" yet again, choose "GNU" from grub
26. Hmm, boot hangs here
27. Reboot with "-s" kernel option
28. mount / -oremount,rw
29. export TERM=mach
30. nano -w /etc/default/hurd-console and change ENABLE='true'
31. mount / -oremount,ro
32. reboot
33. type "login root" to "login>" prompt.
34. cd /dev ; MAKEDEV hd0s2 hd2
35. nano -w /etc/fstab and add "/dev/hd0s2 none swap sw 0 0" and "/dev/hd2 /cdrom iso9660fs ro,noauto 1 1"
36. swapon -a
37. mkdir /cdrom ; mount /cdrom
38. /cdrom/upgrade/install.sh
39. /cdrom/upgrade/gui.sh and choose "vesa" driver and "1280x960 @ 60Hz"

I had to configure the network before running install.sh

1. settrans -fgap /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i eth0 -a 10.0.2.16 -g 10.0.2.2 -m 255.255.0.0
2. echo "nameserver 10.0.2.3" > /etc/resolv.conf

Does that