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Hi Steven,

through one of the BL2 web pages I finally found a compiled binary
of mailfilter.  It runs under Slackware 7.1 and I wondered whether it
would be possible to run it 'headless' from the RAM version  of BL2.

So I tried to customize the baslinux.gz file for BL2 with my old sript
that used to work with BL1 customization. I got errormessages
(overflow of the loop file).

Could you have a glance at my scripts or tell me, what was different
in BL2 image?

Christof


Scripts to customize RAM version of BL2:
---------------blload --------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# $1 points to a *hd* directory containing a copy of baslinux.gz
insmod loop 2>/dev/null
cd /
cd $1
cp build.gz oldimage.gz >/dev/null
if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
   echo 'Usage: '$0' <directory_containing_baslinux>'
   exit 1
else
    gunzip oldimage.gz || exit 1
    mount -o loop oldimage /mnt
    echo
    echo "The BasicLinux filesystem has been mounted to /mnt. Make
your changes. If you"
    echo "are adding modules or other new bits, make sure you don't
overflow the space"
    echo "available. The command 'df' will tell you how much space is
available on /mnt."
    echo "When you are finished, run 'blsave "$1"'."
    echo
fi
----------------------------------------------------

--------------------blsave --------------------------
#!/bin/sh
# $1 points to a *hd* directory containing a copy of baslinux.gz
cd /
cd $1
ls oldimage >>/dev/null && ls /mnt/bin >>/dev/null
if [ $? != 0 ] ; then
    exit 1
else
    HDDIR=`pwd`
    cd /mnt
    tar -cvf $HDDIR/tmp.tar *
    cd $HDDIR
    umount /mnt
    dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 bs=1k count=4096
    mke2fs -i8192 -m0 /dev/ram1 4096
    mount /dev/ram1 /mnt
    cd /mnt
    tar -xvf $HDDIR/tmp.tar
    cd $HDDIR
    umount /mnt
    dd if=/dev/ram1 of=build bs=1k count=4096
    rm $HDDIR/build.gz
    gzip build
    rm $HDDIR/tmp.tar
    rm $HDDIR/build
    echo
    echo "The BasicLinux filesystem has been saved to
$HDDIR/build.gz. "
    echo
fi
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