RE: Clarifications of downloadable file types

-Original Message- From: Al Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 02:34 PM To: community@lists.openmoko.org Subject: Re: Clarifications of downloadable file types On Thursday 10 July 2008, Randy Schnedler wrote: > Hi all. I am an experienced develo

Re: Clarifications of downloadable file types

> *.tar.gz - I know what a tarball is, but when the same filename > exists with both a jffs2 and a tar.gz extension, do they contain the > same thing? Why? Is the tar used with an emulator? Would I ever need > it for the real device? > .jffs2 is for burning to the device, .tar.gz is a copy o

Re: Clarifications of downloadable file types

On Thursday 10 July 2008, Randy Schnedler wrote: > Hi all. I am an experienced developer, though not so much with Linux > development. As I await the arrival of my FR, I have tried to prepare some > different things I want to try. What sort of background? It might help someone else give better exp