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Re: ARAnyM base image and /var/cache/pbuilder/base.cow tarball



Finn Thain dixit:

>Here's what I did (on x86 Linux):

>$ xz -dc disk.ima.xz | dd conv=swab skip=1 | cp --sparse=always /dev/stdin partition.ext4
                           ^^^^^^^^^

Urgh. It’d be much better to do this in ARAnyM, using
a second disc image as target.

bye,
//mirabilos
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