Re: [Devil-linux-develop] setup

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

> >>- Timezone: you should display the subdirectories: instead of Eastern -> 
> >>   US/Eastern (could cause problem above)
> > 
> > You lost me there.
> 
> When you look in /usr/share/zoneinfo , you see that there are 
> subdirectories. One for example is the US with the file Eastern in there.
> You should show this in the list as US/Eastern.
> 
> Clear now?

Got it.  That looks much better.  (already running on my local copy)
I didn't know you could specify the directory too.  Live & learn.

> >>- You should make a comment, that using SYSLOG instead of SYSLOG-NG will 
> >>brake a few things
> > 
> > Will do.  (although it will say "break" not "brake" :)  </smartass>
> 
> Correct me when I do something wrong, I'm here to learn.

I forgot, it's a second-language thing.  
"brake" is what you step on in your car to stop.
"break" is something broken.

Both pronounced the same, spelled different, different meaning.
English is a real pain that way, as I'm sure you already know.  :-)

> >>- Packages: the dialog box is too high,
> > 
> > What do you mean by "too high"?  It covers up the header?
> 
> Yepp, it looks like you have it at least 24 lines high.

I let everything default, so "dialog" sizes all the screens.
I'll have to do some calculations and specify the size.

> >>- save: you do not need to give USB as an option
> > 
> > 
> > OK, how does it work?  
> > It looks for etc.tar and saves it wherever it finds it?
> > I just need to run "save-config" with no arguments?
> 
> Yes correct.
> It also uses *your* routine to find an empty media and then asks if it 
> should copy the configuration.

Cool.  I have a USB memory stick now, so I hope to play with it this
weekend.  BTW, I picked up a small one for saving configurations (64MB),
and a big one (512MB) to try putting all of DL on it, someday.

If anyone wants a small one cheap, this works very nice in Linux:
http://www.compgeeks.com/details.asp?invtid=MRFLASH-64M
64MB, has a write protect switch, and is only $21.95.

 - BS