Bunanson,

16gb inside and external 16gb.

Can you walk me through the next couple of steps?
I downloaded the Fanoush tar to my user file and opened using Squishee.
How can I check to see that the file is in the right place?
Also now I do the memory partition. I want to put about 12gb to os and the rest for storage. How do I do that properly. Any pitfalls.
Any help would be appreciated.
I'm going to take about a 45 minute break and finish this tonight.
It's been fun and hard.
Thanks for your help and support, same to Milhouse. lol, Dan

I follow straightly from Fanoush's instruction and I have no idea about Sqhishee. Here are my steps, (more details here, http://examplified.net/guide/Nokia_7...ting_from_MMC/)

Commands are explained on Schmots "dual boot" section, the 2nd topic, http://schmots.blogspot.com/:
1) dl Fanoush bootmenu.tar to documents folder
2) xterm
3) sudo gainroot
4) cd ~/MyDocs/.documents/
5) tar zxvf initfas_flasher.tgz
6) cd initfs_flasher
7) ./initfs-flash
This will ask you several questions, here is what I recommend (type what's in bold):

backup? no
remove extra stuff? yes
found, do you want to add it to initfs? yes
ready for flashing this image? yes
Press enter to reboot device

Now you have boot menu. I am goin to get a cup of coffee, will you buy me one? Now post to see where you are....


bun

bunanson & Milhouse,

Do I need to be red to be in red pill mode or should I turn it off?
I have no idea what this red pill, heck I have no idea what i've been doing for two weeks but I haven't destroy this little beast!
Look I need a break to refocus(45 min). Can you guys stay on and walk me through the rest when I get back?
I don't understand the memory part because I can't do math(dyslexic).
I read what you sent Bunanson but I barely comprehend most it.
Okay breaktime hopefully someone will be here. lol, Dan

Turn off your red pill mode now. you have no business with red pill mode, it is kind of dangerous. Just type in those steps that I use, they should work. But please, please, please, check the spelling/typing before hitting the return, I cannot bail you out if you type something different, I am NOT a linux guru.

once you made the boot menu, the rest is a piece of cake, and will finish in something like 30 min, if it works.


The references I quote talk about the same thing, and explained about the steps I use, only for your learning. It is getting late, just type the commands very carefully, you will be fine.

bun

Bunanson,

Thanks Bro.
I'm going to take a break and jump back in.
Thanks for everything.
Later I will get it done.
have a good night my friend you too Milhouse.
Dan

Follow thread #180,
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1) set up a boot menu, http://fanoush.wz.cz/maemo/#initfs
2) Gather the two programs, wget and e2fsprogs, which you already did.
3) Partition the card using sfdisk; if not sure, post it and I will help you.
4) Format only the mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1
5) follow this thread #1 step by step,
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Hope you got boot menu done. You can test it by boot up your N800, there should be a menu, and choose 1st item, boot from int flash, as you have not clone the OS yet.

step 2) you already finished, good job.

Now we are onto step 3), partition the card
you should turn off your virtual mem, control panel>memory>Virtual mem and uncheck.
a) xterm
b) sudo gainroot
c) umount /media/mmc2
d) sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk0
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16GB Card (~15.5GB real size - partition 1: 14.5GB, partition 2: ~1GB):
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/dev/mmcblk0p1: 0,14500,0C
/dev/mmcblk0p2: ,,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3:
/dev/mmcblk0p4:

The above are my recommendation, feel free to change it to suit your taste. This gives you 14.5G storage and 1 G Os, that should be plenty; the OS is about 320 mb, so you left with 680 MB to install programs.


take a break,

bun

We continue, you done boot menu, gather programs, partition mmcblk0, now format your mmcblk0

you have to reboot the N800, then
again, VM should be turned off

a) xterm
b) sudo gainroot
c) mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1
d) reboot


bun

Now, you are all ready for this thread #1, carefully go thru step 7. Good nite and good luck,


bun

Bunanson and Milhouse,

Can you look at screen below and tell me what's wrong. I'm so close to finishing and this popped up. I downloaded the Fanoush app to apprpriate directory. Any suggestions?
Thanks, Dan

Perhaps you extracted initfs_flasher.tgz on PC or mmc card. Don't do this. Extract the archive directly somewhere to /home/user. If you did it and it still fails then redownload and make sure tar does not print any error when you extract it (tar zxvf initfs_flasher.tgz).