making the deb will save you a lot of trouble vs manually shifting files around on your tablet. you should be able to follow these steps with only minor variation: http://maemo.org/development/documen...n_package.html

the default debian "rules" file (which is essentially just a make file) will run make then make install on the sources. the "make DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/foo/bar install" line of rules, it might be enough to change DESTDIR to PREFIX. Note that the files get installed to packagesrc/debian/packagename and then compressed into the deb. you can check the folder to make sure everything copies to the right place.