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Dany-69 is offline Dany-69
2010-05-18 , 11:00
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#31
Originally Posted by zehjotkah View Post
you don't need to unmount (if you meant unmount, if you really meant mount, I don't know why you would like to mount the OS) the OS. mklivecd is just reading, copying and compressing the files.
In practice you should install the deb on a PC with any distro ... create the live cd (hopefully there is a version for ARM architecture, something which I doubt) ... then copy the contents of the CD on a microSD ... Install bootmanager on maemo ... Boot from microSD .. and then dump the image.
Am I wrong?
 
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2010-05-18 , 11:01
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#32
Even if you used something like Helix live cd you would still have to MOUNT the os so i am still at a loss as to get a dump of the os without some kind of investigative method being used.
 
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2010-05-18 , 11:03
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#33
Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
Even if you used something like Helix live cd you would still have to MOUNT the os so i am still at a loss as to get a dump of the os without some kind of investigative method being used.
There's no need to mount/unmount the system..
You can directly read/copy every byte of the root/opt in an image witout mounting i suppose....
 

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2010-05-18 , 11:04
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#34
Originally Posted by zehjotkah View Post
read my post again and read also what I wrote in brackets.



why would you do this? It is completely unneeded.
i know... probably i m OT but i want to make a custom PR with my personal image... apps theme... addbook etc... and i need to mount jffs2 partitions on win... is it possible??! or,,, can i mount it on maemo and share it with ssh?!
 
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2010-05-18 , 11:06
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#35
Originally Posted by abill_uk View Post
Even if you used something like Helix live cd you would still have to MOUNT the os so i am still at a loss as to get a dump of the os without some kind of investigative method being used.
the OS in use IS mounted. ^^
To ensure we're talking about the same:
I'm talking about normally booting maemo, use something like mklivecd, which reads the entire OS, copies it and compresses it to an image file, for example .bin.
This .bin file contains ALL installed programs, ALL settings and ALL modifications made to the system. It does not contain the files from the 32GB memory, though.
This .bin can be used to flash the device. No need to reinstall every program, or made any modifications again. Just like a flashable backup.
The next step would be to flash this image from the device itself, that means from a previously cloned, booted OS on the SD-Card (or internal 32GB memory, if you've formatted it previously).
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abill_uk is offline abill_uk
2010-05-18 , 11:11
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#36
OK then why dont you attempt to get a complete copy of the os and IF you are successful even i will applaud you !!!.
Something is staring me in the face here and i just cannot see it right now but there has to be a simple way of grabbing the entire contents of the "hard drive" in the n900.
Have you any idea just how important this would be to everyone if you could do this?.
 
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2010-05-18 , 11:12
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#37
Originally Posted by santiago View Post
i know... probably i m OT but i want to make a custom PR with my personal image... apps theme... addbook etc... and i need to mount jffs2 partitions on win... is it possible??! or,,, can i mount it on maemo and share it with ssh?!
I think our goal is the same ...
You want to mount the jffs2 image obtained by unpacking the fiasco image and shape it according to your requirements as I understand it.

then how should you reinsert the jffs2 image file for use with the flasher?
 
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2010-05-18 , 11:15
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#38
Originally Posted by Dany-69 View Post
I think our goal is the same ...
You want to mount the jffs2 image obtained by unpacking the fiasco image and shape it according to your requirements as I understand it.

then how should you reinsert the jffs2 image file for use with the flasher?
Hang on a minute here you just bolted straight past the problem of getting a direct dump of the FIASCO to start with so maybe you could tell us at least how to do that?
 
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2010-05-18 , 11:16
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#39
Just ignore abill_uk's comments I think he's getting confused.

I have successfully done this BOTH on the N800 and N810. There's no reason why this cannot be done on the N900. Currently I'm following Fanoush's instructions. He's a genuis at this stuff and he helped me getting it up and running last time.
 
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2010-05-18 , 11:18
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#40
Originally Posted by zehjotkah View Post
the OS in use IS mounted. ^^
To ensure we're talking about the same:
I'm talking about normally booting maemo, use something like mklivecd, which reads the entire OS, copies it and compresses it to an image file, for example .bin.
This .bin file contains ALL installed programs, ALL settings and ALL modifications made to the system. It does not contain the files from the 32GB memory, though.
This .bin can be used to flash the device. No need to reinstall every program, or made any modifications again. Just like a flashable backup.
The next step would be to flash this image from the device itself, that means from a previously cloned, booted OS on the SD-Card (or internal 32GB memory, if you've formatted it previously).
mmm... so mklivecd doesn't create a livecd with a small operating system that allow you to copy everything?
Instead, according to your words, it seems to be a program that does everything directly while in use maemo..
But someone said it isn't possible while the system in running..
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