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#231
Originally Posted by lm2 View Post
Damn, install-tools deb seems to have borked the rotation I had set up. Obviously not your fault. I'm just not looking forward to reflashing and setting up rotation again--especially since I forgot to backup diablo as it was before I tried to clone.

Oh, and sliderotate didn't show up as installed in app manager.
Well it sounds like maybe you just need the DEB. The clone deb cannot screw up your flash partition and if its not installed on the ext, it was not in flash, when the clone was run, or it would be on external/internal partitions also
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Originally Posted by penguinbait View Post
Well it sounds like maybe you just need the DEB. The clone deb cannot screw up your flash partition and if its not installed on the ext, it was not in flash, when the clone was run, or it would be on external/internal partitions also
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Since I had implemented rotation the old fashioned way--i.e., not with slide rotate--I just reinstalled all the debs associated with that method, restarted, and presto!, rotation support is restored.

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I want to have Diablo on the flash of my N800 and Chinook on one of my cards. Chinook is currently on my flash and I used your install-tools.deb to clone it to my 2GB card. That is working fine. If I now install Diablo, I assume I will lose the boot menu. What I guess I would need is just an easy way to get the boot menu back after flashing Diablo. Right?

What's the easy way to do that? Thanks.
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Originally Posted by bluesubaru View Post
I want to have Diablo on the flash of my N800 and Chinook on one of my cards. Chinook is currently on my flash and I used your install-tools.deb to clone it to my 2GB card. That is working fine. If I now install Diablo, I assume I will lose the boot menu. What I guess I would need is just an easy way to get the boot menu back after flashing Diablo. Right?

What's the easy way to do that? Thanks.
I'm sure there's another way. But I did it by reinstalling PB's diablo-friendly install-tools deb. That way I have my old chinook sd, and a new diablo sd, with boot menu installed in diablo. And if you don't want new diablo sd clone, you could just reformat the card.

But don't listen to me. I have no clue what I'm doing.
 

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#235
I installed Diabalo and indeed lost the bootmenu. Is there any chance we could have a package that *just* does the boot menu part? I don't have a spare SD card and it would be painful to have to back up an entire card *just* to re flash to boot menu. HELP!!

Eddit: I did look at Fanoush's stuff, but I'm not sure exactly what the package did to install the initial bootmenu, so don't want to mess my working device up.

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Originally Posted by memson View Post
I installed Diabalo and indeed lost the bootmenu. Is there any chance we could have a package that *just* does the boot menu part? I don't have a spare SD card and it would be painful to have to back up an entire card *just* to re flash to boot menu. HELP!!

Eddit: I did look at Fanoush's stuff, but I'm not sure exactly what the package did to install the initial bootmenu, so don't want to mess my working device up.

use fanoush's package.
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Originally Posted by memson View Post
I did look at Fanoush's stuff, but I'm not sure exactly what the package did to install the initial bootmenu, so don't want to mess my working device up.

You won't mess it up. Fanoush's stuff only create a new intial bootmenu. Copy bootmenu.conf.n8x0.example to bootmenu.conf and modify it to your taste. Just a simple ./initfs_flash will give you a new bootmenu!
 
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#238
I may be miss understanding the point of doing this but i was wondering if there was a way that this could be done with Android? I would love to be able to keep that on a card or even on the internal sd on my n810.

Thanks
 
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Re: Clone OS to SD Deb!! Boot from SD made EASY!!
I may be miss understanding the point of doing this but i was wondering if there was a way that this could be done with Android? I would love to be able to keep that on a card or even on the internal sd on my n810.

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The reason for cloning specifically is to get more space for installing applications or even data.

This still allows you to boot from Flash as you do now, but you will have a bootmenu, with the ability to boot to another partition, with whatever you want on it.

You can have multiple instances of the OS with different purposes if you like. Setup a work partition, home partition, media and gaming, whatever you want to do with it
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#240
Ok so i have a question. I have downloaded the install-tools .deb and when i try and install it it says that it is uninstallable. Then it trys to do something with my memory card and fails. I then have to uninstall and reformat the internal card?

Would you give me a little help?
 
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