This page is VERY old. I haven't had time to play with the Hurd (or to update this) in ages, 'cause I'm struggling to write my PhD thesis...
If you're reading this you're probably at the wrong place. Go to the Hurd Wiki at http://hurd.gnufans.org/.
(I now have a barebones Hurd system installed in my Potato box; I used this e-script to install it. I'm not using it much yet, though, because I haven't been able to compile zsh or expect on it (they need porting), nor to change the console to 80x50 on my SiS 6326 video card.)
I'm hosting two pages witten by other people that will go into the http://hurd.sourceforge.net/ or http://hurddocs.sourceforge.net/ sometime soon:
There's a Hurd IRC channel at EFNet (i.e., "everywhere"); I'm often there.
Another Hurd Wiki: http://angg.twu.net/cgi-bin/hurdwiki.cgi. Don't take it seriously now; it is going to be merged with the official Hurd wikis at sourceforge, and I haven't transferred the content to it yet.
Fsmunoz's draft of the new SourceForge Hurd page