It's been quite a while since I did the scratchbox installation, but I just carefully followed the wiki description and it's been working since..

As soon as I finally migrate to OS2008 I guess I'll get to see if the current wiki/instructions gets me through it as easily.

when you come from windows you take a lot of your windows knowledge for granted. give linux some time, there is some system to the madness. that said, I think there are some configuration bugs in the nokia supplied scripts.

You have to specify the user you are installing for with a flag (I think the wiki is missing this detail). I can't remember the syntax, but check the script help (For Bore SDK, type "./maemo-sdk-install_3.1.sh --help")

Only in the afterlife.

installed scratchbox and the sdk. Will have a go at doing a Hello world app tomorrow.

One thing that going to take a while to get used to is that linux is case sensitive

Rebuild your kernel to make it case insensitive!

im spending time going throught the tutorial. Dumb question i know but where is the best place to save my source code?

in your scratchbox home folder, which is /home/username from within scratchbox or /scratchbox/username/home/username outside of scratchbox. Always a good idea to setup some sort of SCM and use it religously even for personal projects.

If you decice to put it out of /scratchbox/.... then you will have to use a mount-bind feature of linux because when you login to scratchbox you will be chrooted to /scratchbox which means that you will not see anything outside /scratchbox. So using mount-bind, you mount "a portion of a partition to another portion of a partition".

Example for me I have modified /scratchbox/sbin/sbox_ctl (start_sbox function) and added before the echo this line:
mount /mnt/hda2/src /scratchbox/users/free/home/free/src -o bind

My source are physically on /mnt/hda2.
My scratchbox is physically on /scratchbox (/ is /mnt/hda1 in fact)

In scratchbox to access my sources:
cd src

In my linux, I have a link like this:
/home/free/src ------> /mnt/hda2/src

So all links are preserved. (/home/free/src is consistent)
I can download out of scratchbox and make it available under scratchbox.