[geekmaster]

Originally Posted by JollyRoger

Sorry, no offence, but what an arrogant reply. The significant learning was to ask if anyone could break it down for me. Thomas did just that, and I've realised that I don't have the skills, and to learn the skills necessary there would be a disproportionate learning curve compared to the value of the result.
At least Thomas replied and helped, perhaps if you step off your podium form which you view all other earthly and unworthy creatures, you could have too?
No matter now, I appreciate any help and I wish you all peace and love.

Umm... cscat's post that you called "gobbledygook" already laid it out step by step, and gave a lot of specific details. If you did not understand it, you lack basic linux knowledge that is required for kindle hacking.

In some neighborhoods, calling somebody's (excellent) work "gobbledygook" (i.e. worthless crap) could be considered "fighting words". My reply to thomass was also not meant to offend, but calling my reply "arrogant" clearly is offensive, which invalidates your "no offence" claim stated earlier.

The point is, if you do not understand linux stuff as posted by cscat, do not label that post publicly with derogatory words. Instead, go learn what you need to know to understand linux basics, or you will have trouble with many other posts here too. Hopefully, you can refrain from derogatory insults for other posts that you do not understand. Saying "no offense" does not really lessen offense made later in your post.

If you read my later post in reply to thomass, you can see that I agreed with him that we need more summaries of existing content here, like silver18's "simple debricking" guide summarized from my "simple debricking" thread.

Hopefully when you get it figured out, you will write and contribute a summary guide so that others will not get confused like you did.

I am sorry if you took offense from me where none was intended, but the answers you seek have already been provided MANY times. In the case of your lack of basic linux knowlege, Google can be your friend. There is a VAST wealth of information on the web showing how to use linux, and some of it is even indexed in the index wikis. Check them out if you get some time.

The rapid growth of this forum tends to bury valuable posts rather quickly, which is why I started the Master Index sticky thread and the topical index wikis that go with it. I and a few others also organized the forum prefixes that match those indexes. And kudos to dreams (who implemented the forum prefixes). Hopefully this should make us "helpers" less weary of posting the same old answers again and again and again and again and again and ... And hopefully it will make it easier for newbies like yourself to get acquainted with our content here in a less confusing way.

SUMMARY: Google and the "Dev Corner Master Index" are your friends here. A "slap in the face" is not an effective way to ASK for help. I think that you owe both cscat and myself an apology MUCH more than we OWE you ANYTHING. You are getting FREE advice here afterall, and we get nothing from providing free help other than feelings of good will and personal satisfaction, and your rude comments to both of us detract greatly from that.