> 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
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