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Re: Cygwin bug? Anyone got any ideas?
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Neal H Walfield |
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Re: Cygwin bug? Anyone got any ideas? |
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Mon, 27 Nov 2000 23:23:13 -0500 |
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> I wonder if it is tar or rsh that's buggy, or cygwin itself. Can anyone
> give me a hand to hack this tar file to get everything unpacked?
I have not used windows in years and never used cygwin. However, it is
critical that user ids and group ids are preserved. I do not know how
that is going to work dumping to a fat partition.
> Maybe I should burn the tar itself onto a CD, then install it on my
> Linux box, then untar it there, save all untar'd files back onto a CD,
> then somehow install the Hurd on my 486......
Why not install GNU/Linux on your 486 and then install the hurd?
-Neal
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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or neal@cs.uml.edu
- Cygwin bug? Anyone got any ideas?, James Buchanan, 2000/11/27
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- Re: Cygwin bug? Anyone got any ideas?, James Buchanan, 2000/11/27
- 486-Hurd (was Re: Cygwin bug? Anyone got any ideas?), Erik Hunger, 2000/11/28
- Re: 486-Hurd (was Re: Cygwin bug? Anyone got any ideas?), Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/11/28
- Re: 486-Hurd (was Re: Cygwin bug? Anyone got any ideas?), Erik Hunger, 2000/11/29
- Re: 486-Hurd (was Re: Cygwin bug? Anyone got any ideas?), Marcus Brinkmann, 2000/11/29