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

Four CD images are supplied.  The others are probably of no interest.

GNU-K8-mini.iso is also supplied which consists of a boot-floppy and baseGNU.

A K8 DVD is available.

About these images.

These images were produced using highly modified Debian's debian-cd and 
boot-floppy packages.  The baseGNU.tgz (the tarball) has been specifically 
built for this series.

A serious attempt has been made to ensure that the packages wanted by most 
people are on the first CD.  The *_hurd-i386.deb packages are on the first
three CDs.  All the required, important and standard packages or on
the first CD.

This series has not included packages other than the official Debian archive 
and ftp.gnuab.org.

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 or the alternative boot-disks.
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 "8" 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 four to eight weeks.

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

These images are copyright, Philip Charles. December 2004
Released under the GPL.

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