From: jon+vserver_at_silicide.dk
Date: Tue 26 Aug 2003 - 12:02:17 BST
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 08:06:38PM -0400, Dinesh Mistry wrote:
> Is there any way you can just tar up the files rather than compressing a
> 3.0gig image, this way we can uncompress them in to any size loop back FS we
> wish?
>
> That would rock.
Yes, but until then, you can sort of do that yourself.
bunzip it, loop mount it, and then use this: from the /
of the image.
find -xdev | cpio -pm /mnt
where /mnt is the real filesystem where you want the files.
JonB
ps: i'm wondering why nobody uses bittorrent to download these
images.