"Kapil H. Paranjape" wrote: > The system just hung during the build when I kept the two steps > together (memory leaks ?). By separating the build and the binary > steps I think I managed to reduced the number of reboots required!
> The hurd continues to hang during large builds and installs like TeX > probably due to some memory leak mentioned by someone earlier on this > mailing list. Make sure yopu have lots of memory and SWAP! > >Yes, but also use -p and --same-owner with tar (both times). > > > >Or tar the image file of the partition. > > Do you mean that "tar -p" and "cp -a" can copy translator specials? > I'll try this tomorrow. No, but it is important anyway. Marcus
