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Originally Posted by linuxrebel View Post
Ok... here goes.

1. Clean 2GB card in mmc2 (internal slot on n800, running latest 2008 (admittedly modified like crazy.)

2. SCP'd the install.deb int /home/user.

3. Resisted temptation to go Linux on this and do dpkg -i .... using the installer instead. (grumble )

4. Remembered why I hate the install tool... moved the deb into one of the MyDoc dot files.

5. Get warned by Nokia that they aren't responsible for the software. (well du-uh)

6. Get passive pop-up that the memory card is available. (this looks like it's a good thing.)

7. Xylon "eye" still running after about 1 minute. Expecting this to be a long install so no problem.

8. Took less than 5 but more than 1 minute (time isn't an option here.) Gave me an all clean message that the install was successful.

9. Removed power to shut down.

10. rebooted greeted with fanoushes boot loader. accepted the default.

11. Boot from mmc2 failed .... booting from flash (this thankfully succeeded.

12 upon boot I get a message that the memory card is corrupted or otherwise unreadable.

13. Did a USB connect to my laptop (running Debian)

14. From the laptop I see this

fdisk -l /dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1 1 3829 122527+ 6 FAT16
/dev/sdb2 3830 57435 1715392 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 57436 61264 122528 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Unable to mount or read the files there as well. I'm going to re-format and try again with this card. Ok... got into an endless boot loop.... Got out of it by moving the SD card to the other slot. Now back to square one. about to finish the clean up and try again.


Again , as noted in the install info, if it fails the first time, just boot back to flash and re-run it again.

What I noticed is some cards need to be rebooted after partitioning. I you reformat it again and then run again, it may fail again.
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