[ROM:Personal] FarTed 1.0-new adventures in flashing

[Farmer Ted]

So, I started playing around with AtOmAng's kitchen a few weeks ago. Operating a basic kitchen is pretty easy, but kind of dull. You have a set number of packages you can decide to include in the ROM, but when it comes down to it, most choices are pretty obvious, and the output ROM isn't much different from the one you could've just downloaded. Still, it's good practice to play around with the kitchen and see how it works. I cooked a few ROMs at first, felt uninspired, and didn't flash them. Here are the basic instructions to use his kitchen:

Basic instructions:
Extract Kitchen base files.
Extract Packages into At0mAng Kitchen - 5.08.502.1 folder
Double click At0mAng's HTC Kitchen.CMD to start

ROM Building:
From main menu
Select Option 1
You will be presented with a device list to build kitchen, select your device.
From there you will be presented with 3 more options, I like to use Option 3, Build a ROM using BuildOS+ Package Tools
Once BuildOS starts click on BuildOS tab, then press Load ROM
Leave packages Tweaks, ProFuze Keyboard switcher and Enahanced Video Driver selected (on) so they are include in the ROM you build.
Select other packages that you desire
Once all packages are selected press GO (Green Arrow)
Once BuildOS is complete a window will pop up asking you what Device once again. Select your device.
After that step is complete flash program will begin.
If you do not wish to flash than press cancel and the new ROM can be found in the RUU subfolder.

He left out the bit about pressing load rom, but the only important thing is to not be a total dope and build a Diamond ROM. One other thing: extract the kitchen directly to your C: drive. I don't know why, but it works better there (not the kitchen contents, but the kitchen folder). Some things, like OEMizer, have to be in a folder right on the C: drive. Next, I started screwing around, and didn't get anywhere (we won't mention this again). Then I started adding packages, a lot that I created and some that I downloaded (see the packages sticky). The ROMs were a mess; basically, I ended up with a messed up Program folder and pretty much all of the packages I created shot the programs into the Program folder and didn't create shortcuts. Bleh. Did some reading. Here are the best resources, pretty much all from PPC Kitchen.

How to make OEMs: The Ervius package tool works pretty well, but the paths didn't work for me (probably doing it wrong). There's a text file in each package (initflashes.txt) that tells the BuildOS where to send shortcuts and the other components of the package. I had to fix all of these, and doing so sends shortcuts into the proper menus in the Program folder. I have no clue how to create my own directory, so I just used Atom's. He's got pretty nice folder icons (not as nice as NRG's), so it's ok. Wish there was a tweaks folder, though, with a nice icon. I did get two packages that wouldn't work: total commander and mobipocket. I downloaded a TC package, but still am screwed with mobipocket. It's the only cab I have to install now. I'll figure it out sooner or later, and there are other methods to install files, so I may try them when I finally figure them out.

Adding Registry Entries: This was the best of the tutorials. Unbelievably, every key I entered worked. Experience with sashimi helped a ton, and I've got pretty much all my settings cooked in. Sweet!

Adding personal files: Ok, this one went a little over my head so far. Basically, I don't know squat about writing script for paths, or whatever you're supposed to do here. Every file I put in the package goes to \windows, which is ok for about half of them, but sucks for the rest. Work in progress. This may be how I put mobipocket into the ROM, assuming I figure this stuff out.