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.
