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diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn index 661084d3..a8049baf 100644 --- a/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn +++ b/hurd/running/qemu.mdwn @@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ volunteers and may not have been tested extensively. * [Disk image](http://draketo.de/dateien/hurd/bab-hurd-qemu-2008-10-29.img.tar.bz2) with a short intro on translators. Just start it with 'qemu *disk_image.img*'. - It should work without any of the configuration below. when you use it, please [tell me your experience with it](http://draketo.de/contact)! - [[community/weblogs/ArneBab]] + It should work without any of the configuration below. If you want to know what you can do + with it, please have a look at [[its_wikipage|hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image]]. And when + you use it, please [tell me your experience with it](http://draketo.de/contact)! - [[community/weblogs/ArneBab]] <!--* [Announcement](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2007/09/msg00000.html) of another image. - The link in the email doesn't work anymore, too old. //--> diff --git a/hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image.mdwn b/hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e13621cb --- /dev/null +++ b/hurd/running/qemu/babhurd_image.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +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 free university of Berlin: + +$ 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? |