motorola milestone - finally rooted

not in a bad sense, rather I managed to get my phone updated to Android 2.01
(since I have a british milestone from expansys.com.au, it gets its update from europe motorola via the internet),
Menu -> Settings -> System Updates ... & it runs for while....

When complete, you can now root.
Follow instructions from http://news.lehsys.com/?p=7537
1. download http://rapidshare.de/files/49019165/milestone_root.zip and rename to /sdcard/update.zip
2. switch off phone
3. hold camera button. Then power on.
4. When you get the triangle screen, release the power & camera button
5. Now tricky bit: Press Volume+ button & camera simultaneously. I had to attempt this about 10 times to get it to work
6. Now you get a list of options - Open the keyboard, use the navigation pad to select "Update from SD card."
7. Use the centre pad key to select - what ever you do, don't choose the "Format SD card" or "Hard Reset" options!!
8. You should see an updating screen - this may have an error message, but as long as you see the message "Rooting phone" (or similar :-), it has worked
9. Reboot the phone
10. Assuming it all booted up & you get your normal phone scree, start a Terminal emulator (I used ConnectBot or "Android Terminal Emulator (Jack Palevich)" from the Android Market, others use "Terminal Emulator"  but this gives me the dreaded Force Close message)
11. Type su  to get root access!!! ps: Android throws up a big screen "The following application has requested Superuser access to the phone". Select Yes.
ps: sometimes su hangs. I have to restart the terminal emulator to get it working again.

now for linux tools for android: http://android.modaco.com/content/htc-hero-hero-modaco-com/299984/linux-tools-coming-to-mcr/ & http://alldroid.org/threads/16201-HOW-TO-Root-Extras-Telus-Motorola-Milestone