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	qole	2009-06-11 , 16:39
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Originally Posted by elschemm

Thanks. I just grabbed a copy of the file again and copied it to my big work computer. I'll keep two versions. One that's stock and one that has my changes. Then if I find enough I can email you the list of files.

Thanks, I would appreciate that (as would many others, I'm sure).

Originally Posted by elschemm

BTW: Is there any particular reason that you have the file tarred? Tar does not compress things at all, in fact it makes things slightly larger than the original. It's only about 10K for your current image, but thats 10K of wifi-download plus the untar time.tar

You've got a point. Why not just compress the file instead of tarring and compressing?

I guess it was just a habit... I tar and compress the rootfs file (for good reason, it contains many many files), so I just automatically did the same for the image file.

I'm not really a developer, everything I've done here someone else in the forums patiently taught me

I wonder how much extra time is added to untar and un-bzip2-it instead of just un-bzip2-ing it?

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