Re: Hurd CDs

To: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Hurd CDs
From: <olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:29:39 +0200
Message-id: <20090831192936.GK9615@alien.local>
Mail-followup-to: debian-hurd@lists.debian.org
In-reply-to: <200908292243.08771.philipc@copyleft.co.nz>
References: <200908241710.24915.philipc@copyleft.co.nz> <20090828015910.GH2422@alien.local> <200908292243.08771.philipc@copyleft.co.nz>

Hi,

On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 10:43:07PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote:

> IIRC, modern Linux gzip can gzip and ungzip Hurd partitions.

I'm not sure what you mean here exactly... Of course it's possible to
zip up a partition image -- but that's not terribly useful for an
installer.

Or do you actually mean tar? I don't think GNU tar can deal with Hurd
translators directly. It *might* be able to deal with extended
attributes by now; so with the xattr-hurd patch (last tested on Linux
2.6.15) it might be possible to create and extract a tarball with
translators. (It's definitely possible with star.)

-antrik-

Reply to:

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Hurd CDs
  - From: Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>

References:
- Hurd CDs
  - From: Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>
- Re: Hurd CDs
  - From: <olafBuddenhagen@gmx.net>
- Re: Hurd CDs
  - From: Philip Charles <philipc@copyleft.co.nz>

Prev by Date: Re: Hurd CDs
Next by Date: Re: Hurd CDs
Previous by thread: Re: Hurd CDs
Next by thread: Re: Hurd CDs
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread