[pocket-linux] burnt some midnight oil ...

[Rainer]

hello,

in college we we used to call  the all-nighter the melitta shift and i swore
to myself that i would hear some mp3s last night ...

since the script ran fine on the build system i knew that wasn't the
problem. racked my brain for a solution. realised usr-staging wasn't that
large and could fit uncompressed on a 'overclocked' floppy. took me an hour
to figure out the /dev/fd0u1600 technique (those man pages really aren't
that helpful sometimes), copied user-staging to it, answered 'no' for the
last floppy and manually created /dev/ram1 as outlined in the guide,
formatted, mounted, mounted floppy (added device fd0u1600 to the root disk),
and copied /mnt/floppy to /usr. then mp3blaster complained about librairies
(used the latest version, 3.13. i believe). copied all the vorbis libraries
to my /home floppy, unmounted /dev/fd0u, mounted /dev/fd0, copied the
missing libs. to /usr/lib and bingo. i think it was fitting that the first
thing i heard was linus pronouncing linux ... now how do you get a whole
folder of mp3s into mp3blaster ....

i know this was cheating but it highlights the fact that Pocket Linux had
enough tools on it to do all this. looked back at the design section of the
appendix and the usr_script and i'm wondering about the state of /dev/ram1,
i.e. does it need to be formatted if the image is decompressed before being
copied to it?, which the outline/script seems to imply. this is all pretty
mind-boggoling to me

anyhow, had a gas, one terminal playing mp3s, one with the goddam mp3blaster
commands, one looking over the usr_image script, one open to /home on
/dev/fd0 for sasving stuff, ...
who needs a monster distro when you got a lightening fast system in ram?
thanks.

ps - minor typo, i think, in A3.3.3, second to last line;
    bash# cd  ~/usr/staging/share/terminfo/l
        should read
    bash# cd ~/usr-staging/share/terminfo/l