*CAUTION*
These are alpha installation discs of a developing operating system.  Use at 
your own risk and take the proper precautions.

A mini.iso is also supplied which consists of a boot-floppy and baseGNU.

A standard tarball based on the K11 series is supplied.

The baseGNU.tgz (the tarball) has been specifically built for this series.

Supported Hardware.

In theory these CDs should install GNU/Hurd on any i386 machine on which
Debian 3.0 can be installed using the CD-ROM.
However, unpacking baseGNU onto the drive is no guarantee that GNU/Hurd will 
run as there may be other hardware issues.

Nomenclature.

There are no GNU releases as such and so these discs are a snap-shot of the
Debian GNU/Hurd archive with the addition of packages from other sources.
The release information and build date will be found in /.disk/info.  The 
"K8" is the version.  
The letter "K" refers to the version of the GNU/Linux installer on the discs.
The number "9" refers to the debian GNU/Hurd packages found on the CDs, DVD and
in baseGNU.tgz.  In the case of K8 the packages are as at 
Tue Dec 28 20:00:02 UTC 2004 at ftp-master.debian.org.
As GNU is in a continuous state of flux this can be expected to change 
frequently.   

Updates.

It is my intention to update these discs every few months.

As usual comments are welcome.

For further information about the CDs see http://www.debian.org.

These images are copyright, Philip Charles. April 2006
Released under the GPL.

    ftp-master.debian.org:- Mon Apr 24 21:00:01 UTC 2006


Philip Charles
philipc@debian.org
http://www.copyleft.co.nz