Well duh!
I know I don't get to the wiki as often as I should but I had totally forgotten about the book.
Well, it's still waiting for bftpd. I like to work with upstream, otherwise I'd have deployed a patched bftpd ages ago. Once it's published, expect a lot more "read that part" responses to new user questions
I would be very grateful if anyone can help me accomplish this.
Perhaps my first post was unclear, so elaborating here.
You want to have that font available to the WM. This means you need to do one of
a) xset before the WM
b) tell Xvesa the font path with its -fp option
To do either, you need to edit your .xsession. It's usually in the backup, but you can include your modified .xsession file in a cpio archive too.
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If you require the new fonts in the existing font dirs, you need to do some mangling: the bitmap font dirs have the index files created by mkfontdir and friends, these need to be up to date for them to work.