[Devil-Linux-discuss] Some help sought with the devel environment

[Maarten v. d. B. <de...@ul...>]

Hi,

I've just built my first devil linux, version 0.6, from the development 
system and I my head is still spinning... hehe ;-)  

But seriously, I have a problem making the floppydisk. The command 
'build/scripts/build-etc' spews errors no matter from which directory I 
run it. (do I need to run it as chrooted user or as a 'normal' root ?)
This is what it says:

root:/# ./build/scripts/build-etc
cat: /data/build/scripts/config/VERSION: No such file or directory
./build/scripts/build-etc: pushd: /data/build/tmp/ETC: No such file or 
directory
tar (child): Cannot open archive /data/build/tmp/etc.tar.bz2: No such file 
or directory
tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
./build/scripts/build-etc: line 19: 20187 Broken pipe             tar -cjf 
$WORKDIR/etc.tar.bz2 etc
mount: mount point /floppy does not exist
umount: /floppy: not found
./build/scripts/build-etc: popd: directory stack empty

The first error is quite understandable since /data is completely empty 
(is that normal ?).  I tried making an symlink in /data to /build but 
that prompts the script to complain "Too many levels of symbolic links".

Since this is my first build ever and I'm not too sure what to expect I'm 
sorta stuck.  The CD I burned does try to boot and all (until it asks for 
the floppydisk), so it is not a totally botched job ;-)
Any hints on what's wrong ? (Or: as a workaround, Can I simply make a 
tarball of  /etc or does that make things worse ?)

After this works I'll be looking to add some programs, most importantly 
some means to do IP accounting.  Thus I'd be very glad for any tips on 
which programs could be useful, what has been done or tried before, and 
especially more extensive docs on how to integrate your own stuff into 
Devil linux.  Are there more docs than what is in the new documentation 
at  http://www.devil-linux.org/newdoc/ch02s03.html ? Because this leaves 
me with almost as many questions after reading as before... ;-)

Oh yeah, the version I used is the version that I got from cvs yesterday.

Thanks in advance,
Maarten

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