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2008-06-13 , 03:54
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I did something really, really stupid! We will leave it at that.

Does anyone know a way to manually extract backup files so that I can replace some stuff without reflashing the whole darned device?

I finally got my backup off the n810 and saw they were zips.. now we shall see.


Thanks.
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2008-06-13 , 05:17
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Ended up still having to reflash..urgh.

When you are tired and a file extracts itself to /home/user/home/user Do Not in your fatigue type rm -rf /home into xterm and hit enter without thinking about it.... lol

On the upside, this was a fabulous learning experience into how Maemo actually works and what is stored where. I actually saw what happens to the desktop when it has no reference config files or anything, and I saw a mouse pointer on my n810 desktop at boot.
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2008-06-13 , 05:48
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Originally Posted by combatdoc View Post
Ended up still having to reflash..urgh.

When you are tired and a file extracts itself to /home/user/home/user Do Not in your fatigue type rm -rf /home into xterm and hit enter without thinking about it.... lol

On the upside, this was a fabulous learning experience into how Maemo actually works and what is stored where. I actually saw what happens to the desktop when it has no reference config files or anything, and I saw a mouse pointer on my n810 desktop at boot.
You think that's bad?

I once ran rm -rf /

>.<
 
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2008-06-13 , 15:37
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lol.
I did that once on an old machine just to see what happens as it goes away. It did some really weird stuff, but continued to function from RAM till I shut it off (needless to say X functioned, but nothing else existed so nothing actually worked).
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2008-06-13 , 15:41
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Hehe, I ripped apart my old machine and used it to softmod an xbox and then binned it :P
 
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2008-06-13 , 16:18
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Originally Posted by qwerty12 View Post
You think that's bad?

I once ran rm -rf /

>.<
The best is when some luser knows he can operate as root and descends into the bowels of the directory structure and types in:
rm -rf .

Yes that's "rm -rf dot"
Then watches it ascend the directory structure and come back down.

I had a guy do that in Thailand with no backup and it took a week to get him a new image.
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