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

[Bruce S. <bw...@ar...>]

> > I've never even run a "make dist"  command.  
> > What's it good for?
>
> Just run it and take a look in the dist/ directory afterwards.
> It's for making the result ready for distribution.

Ah, OK.  I see now!
I was thinking it make something different ... never mind.  :-/

> >>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.

You just wanted to see if I was paying attention, right?  :-)

 - BS