Thread: Nokia N9 Sailfish OS How to make partition?
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juiceme is offline juiceme
2014-02-17 , 20:37
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Originally Posted by asterismo View Post
Yeah, guess i'm a lucky guy, my phone doesn't got bricked. I managed to boot the ubiboot image and reformatted the N9 in 3 partitions and went back to stock MeeGo, the thing is that it does reformat the drive so any changes/resizes i do in partitions they got deleted too.

I would like to have like
12gb Nokia N9
2gb /
1gb /home

since i do not have many apps installed, mostly a chroot debian with a big img file and a bunch of mp3 files, so the larger the partition, the better for me.

My nokia N9 defaulted partitions are now

8.4gb or so Nokia N9
4gb /
2gb /home

right? Anyway to change this? I think i could boot up ubiboot again in telnet mode and resize with gparted, but i did that and then Meego has all the info on free storage wrong, it says "total space, 19.5gb" or so, that is not true, so i went back to original.
Yes, that is the way to do it.
First, flash to stock Harmattan open mode, then boot to ubiboot console, back up all partitions to external Linux computer (as tar files), then repartition as you like, reformat and restore from the tar files.
That is how I have done it, and I have 6 partitions on my N9.


Originally Posted by asterismo View Post
I need the wifi tethering to be working on sailfish to be able to migrate. Is that working? because i could not install any app from the Jolla store. I use tethering to connect to my laptop so is a life or dead must app.
A very good question, I really do not know if the Jolla-version of terhering app works with N9, as the HW is different. If the application does not do anything too deep (as it should not need to do, really) then it should work OK.
However, 3G/WIFI tethering is easy to do also without any appication, you just need to fire up wpasupplicant and set a few rules in iptables.


Originally Posted by asterismo View Post
And another question, is there anyway to install Sailfish as the ONLY OS in the phone? like flashing the stock meego binary? would like toi have that if wifi tethering is working.
Sure it is possible, there are at least 2 ways to do it;
  • 1. You can just repartition the device like you want, and use ubiboot to launch Sailfish.
  • 2. You can compile your kernel with static boot parameters (at least root partition and framebuffer is needed) and flash it as default boot kernel.