Thread: flashing with a windows pc... probably a noob question
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robbh66 is offline robbh66
2007-07-06 , 14:51
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You need:
osso-Xterm
becomeroot
unzip
tar (but this might be installed by default)

Install Xterm, become root, and unzip from the application manager (you need to add the right repositories).

Download kernel_flasher.tgz from his site and whichever firmare you wish (the absolute newest version is "experimental" in his own words and can be found at http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/zImage-yuv420)

I'm very new to linux (770 forces you to learn the basics) so i might have missed something here but it will basically go like this in terminal:

Code:
# sudo gainroot
# cd /home/users/MyDocs/.documents/
# tar zxvf kernel_flasher.tgz
# unzip <zImagename.zip> <-- Step only needed if the zImage is zipped!
# cd kernel_flasher
# ./kernel_flash /home/users/MyDocs/.documents/<zImagename>
That should cover it all. If something is wrong don't worry about it messing something up - generally the command just wont work at all.

If someone wanted to explain to me why (and how you're supposed to know) that you use the "./" before the kernel_flash that'd be great. Also why is there a "." before documents?