Re: using vmware for testing (was Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Future improvement ideas. (resend/new thread :))

[Friedrich L. <fl...@fl...>]

Bruce Smith wrote:
>>Actually for testing you'd only need to run 'make iso'.
> 
> Yes, that's what I've been doing.  I've been wondering about 
> the purpose of "make dist", and this jogged my memory to ask.
> 
> I've never even run a "make dist"  command.  
> Why would I want to?  What's it good for?
> I'm missing the point again!  :-)

Just run it and take a look in the dist/ directory afterwards.

It's for making the result ready for distribution. Like the
stuff you can download from
   ftp://ftp.devil-linux.org/pub/devel/testing/


>>Another tip:
>>Put a dos formated disk into drive a: then do
>>   dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy-image
>>You can mount this
>>   mount floppy-image /mnt -o loop
>>   cd /mnt
>>   rm *      (only if floppy was not empty)
>>   tar -xvjf /path-to/etc.tar.bz2
>>   cd homedir
>>   umount /mnt
> 
> 
> OK, that creates an _un_tar'ed etc directory in the floppy image,
> but I thought the boot process wanted /etc tar'ed up?
> 
> Shouldn't the "tar -xvjf /path-to/etc.tar.bz2" command be:
> "cp /path-to/etc.tar.bz2 /mnt"  instead???

Yes, of course. Must have been a little absent-minded when I
wrote that.

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Friedrich Lobenstock
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Friedrich Lobenstock                       Linux Services Lobenstock
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