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diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index c0952fcf..00000000 --- a/hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,67 +0,0 @@ -What this little Hurd image can do ----------------------------------- - -### About this text - -This is the README file accompanying a -[disk\_image](http://draketo.de/dateien/hurd/bab-hurd-qemu-2008-10-29.img.tar.bz2) for -[[running_the_GNU/Hurd_via_qemu|hurd/running/qemu]]. To run the disk image, just use *'qemu -disk_image.img'*. - -You can find the custom *.bashrc* used to tell the user about it as well as this text itself -in the Mercurial repository [hurd_intro](http://bitbucket.org/ArneBab/hurd_intro). - -### Intro - -The Hurd has some unique capabilities, and we created this simple image -to enable you to easily try two of them: - -* The simplest of translators: Hello World! -* Transparent FTP - -### Hello World - -To try out the simplest of translators, you can go the following simple steps: - - $ cat hello - $ setrans hello /hurd/hello - $ cat hello - "Hello World!" - $ settrans -g hello - $ cat hello - -What you do with these steps is first verifying that the file "hello" is empty. - -Then you setup the translator /hurd/hello in the file/node hello. - -After that you check the contents of the file, and the translator returns "Hello World!". - -To finish it, you tell the translator to go away from the file "hello" via "settrans -g hello" and verify that now the file is empty again. - -### Transparent FTP - -We already setup a a transparent FTP translator for you at /ftp: - -With it you can easily access public FTP via the file system, for example the one from the GNU project: - - $ ls /ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ - -But you can also do this very easily yourself: - - $ # Setup the translator on the node ftp: - $ settrans -c ftp: /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs / - -and you can access FTP sites via the pseudo-directory ftp:, for example with - - $ ls ftp://ftp.gnu.org/ - -What you do here is setting up the translator /hurd/hostmux on ftp: and passing it the translator /hurd/ftpfs to use for resolving accesses as well as / as additional path component. - - -These were only two basic usages of translators on the Hurd. We're sure you'll quickly see many other ways to use this. - -As a last comment: You can setup a translator on any node you have access to, so you can for example mount any filesystems as normal user. - -You might currently be logged in as root, but you could just as well do the same as normal user. - -Why don't you try it out? |