Re: woody root.bin

[Mario Lang <mlang@teleweb.at>]

Cheryl Homiak <chomiak@chartermi.net> writes:

> 3. I did my tar command for the brlttydisk as follows:
> tar cvpf brlttydisk.tar *
> I think using the "f" and the filename is actually the proper way to use tar
> rather than using a 'greater than" sign, though I imagine that works too.

redirection works the same as the f argument works, its really just a
matter of taste.

well, maybe if you use eshell, or some other strangely implemented
shell variant, but ash shouldn't present a performance problem I think.

> 8. Per the comment that was made re: the new installer system coming down the
> pike where hacking bootdisks may not be of help, those of us involved in debian
> might want to get some  fingers in that pie so that brltty users don't get
> locked
> out of being able to install debian with brltty in the future. It's too easy to
> get left in the position of complaining after the fact about something that
> might have been forseen and dealt with before the fact.

I successfully built the debian-installer floppies already.
They are far from usable for installation right now, but I'm
slowly progressing... As soon as I have something useable/testable in
this direction, I'll tell.


-- 
CYa,
  Mario