Thanks ... This is clear and concise enough that I think even I could work through it ... I am pleased that some of my mindless rants could be used to good advantage ...
I did get an explanation from Derrick about WHY the build should not be done as root. I am paraphrasing but the executive summary is that some applications on the build list may not be "well behaved" and might attempt to build/install for the local host machine, not your build root environment. If this happens, simple things like you host's "inid.d" could be modified. This could render your host machine brain dead. I was so naive that I was not aware of this possibility. Being a lazy SOB at heart, I have been doing my builds as root. So far I have not been hit by lightning. But I now understand why it is important to do the build process as a "mortal user". Better to get "write error" during the build than to hose your host machine. During this exercise, another issue has come up that is of interest to me. I use CentOS 4.3 for my build machine. I am having a persistent problem getting the OS to see the CF card I am going to burn when it is inserted into the USB reader/writer. I got feedback from others using CentOS that this is common. One fellow (Ingmar) indicated he has seen similar with SUSE. Its not a critical issue, but its really annoying. And its not really an Astlinux issue other than it impacts ones ability to successfully perform the build/burn. I would love to hear back from a few of you who do NOT have this issue what distro you use for your build environment. I am not married to CentOS and might consider changing to make life simpler. Or if someone using CentOS has figured out a fix or even a reliable workaround, that would be helpful also. I seem to recall that I when I was actively building m0n0wall about 6 months ago, I used a Fedora based workstation and don't think I had this trouble. There were other things I did not like in Fedora that got me to switch to CentOS but I don't think they were at this fundamental level. Thanks again G.Hendershot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Mee Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 2:04 AM To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Quick rundown on the usag eof mkimage.shanyone? > Kristian Kielhofner wrote: > Gary G. Hendershot wrote: > Darrick Hartman wrote: <snip> What a great thread! I attempted to capture it by updating: http://voip-info.org/wiki/view/AstLinux+Development+Environment If someone can double check my editing I'd appreciate it. Gary, hopefully its clear enough for you to work from next time? I was motivated to do this in part by some updates to the other doc pages by 'bbach' regarding keydisks and VMWare. Thanks whoever you are! (And a couple of others over the past few days). Btw, all the new user guide chapter pages have received > 200 hits in the past three days. That's a lot of interest in Astlinux ... or a lot of webcrawlers :-) cheers, michael _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
