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ear0wax	2011-02-10 , 07:51
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Originally Posted by wakkamis

Yup.. pretty sure i got the idea that .ext2 was a disk image. Similar to an iso.
And that .bz2 are like a .zip or .rar file.

What I dont know how to do is extract files from the bz2 and create a ext2 image out of them. Only amount of linux i have used is the tiniest amount of ubuntu and the n900. heh.

did a quick search on how i might be able to do this and I was sent to this site: http://www.fs-driver.org/

That driver is so buggy, I would just use a live usb key or something and do it in linux.

theres a post in the forums explaining how, but its something along the lines of making a 2 gigabyte image

Code:

 dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/file/file2G.img bs=1M count=2048

then format.

Code:

mkfs.ext2 file2G.img

then mount somewhere and change to directory

Code:

mount /path/file2G.img /media/image
cd /media/image

nows the part youve had real trouble with
extract.

Code:

tar xjvf nameoffile.bz2

This all can be done on the n900 its self, But I warn you disk IO is slooowww, but possible. Personally i would do it all on a linux desktop.

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