[[meta copyright="Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[meta license="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled [[GNU_Free_Documentation_License|/fdl]]."]] ## Setting up translators - HowTo Translators can be got from hurd-extras <http://www.nongnu.org/hurdextras/> cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.savannah.nongnu.org:/sources/hurdextras co <modulename> * httpfs translator <!-- Prevent ikiwiki / Markdown rendering bug. --> $ settrans -a tmp/ /hurd/httpfs www.hurd-project.com/ or $ settrans -a tmp/ /hurd/httpfs www.hurd-project.com/ --proxy=<proxy> --port=<port> $ cd tmp/ $ ls -l * ftpfs translator <!-- Prevent ikiwiki / Markdown rendering bug. --> $ settrans -cgap ftp /hurd/hostmux /hurd/ftpfs / $ cd ftp ftp$ ls ftp$ cd ftp.fr.debian.org ftp/ftp.fr.debian.org $ ls * tarfs translator You can use tarfs to mount (almost) any tar file: $ settrans -ca a /hurd/tarfs -z myfile.tar.gz $ settrans -ca b /hurd/tarfs -y myfile.tar.bz2 $ settrans -ca c /hurd/tarfs myfile.tar You can even use it to create new tar files: $ settrans -ca new /hurd/tarfs -cz newfile.tar.gz $ cp -r all my files new/ $ syncfs new This is not as fast as `tar czvf newfile.tar.gz all my files` but at least, it's more original. ;) * cvsfs translator <!-- Prevent ikiwiki / Markdown rendering bug. --> $ settrans -ac cvsfs_testing /hurd/cvsfs cvs.savannah.nongnu.org /sources/hurdextras $ cd cvsfs_testing * pfinet translator -- configuring your network interface <!-- Prevent ikiwiki / Markdown rendering bug. --> $ settrans -fgca /servers/socket/2 /hurd/pfinet -i <interface> -a <ip address> -m <subnet mask> -g <gateway ip> * Console translator -- setting up virtual consoles <!-- Prevent ikiwiki / Markdown rendering bug. --> $ console -d vga -d pc_mouse -d pc_kbd -d generic_speaker /dev/vcs * iso9660fs translator -- 'mounting' your cdrom <!-- Prevent ikiwiki / Markdown rendering bug. --> $ settrans -ac /cdrom /hurd/iso9660fs /dev/<cdrom device file> * ext2fs translator -- 'mounting' an ext2fs partition <!-- Prevent ikiwiki / Markdown rendering bug. --> $ settrans -ac /linux /hurd/ext2fs /dev/<partition device file> * unionfs translator To join "foo/" "bar/" and "baz/" in the directory "quux/", just do: $ settrans -capfg quux/ /hurd/unionfs foo/ bar/ baz/ If you want to join even quux/ contents in the union itself, add -u as a translator argument. You can add filesystems at run-time with the fsysopts command.