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Could You quote which version exactly You mean?

His u-boot version, based on a stripped 2.6.37 kernel iirc. The filesharing link was not valid anymore.

I have 2 issues i am struggling with in the past 3 days, i hope someone here can help me to solve.

The first is making USB networking work - no matter what i did i couldn't do that and it seems the SSH is the most important feature of this great application. i tried following the thread about USB networking, playing with th interfaces, but nothing. if someone has this working i'll be glad for a few tips - maybe something else needs to be installed (i'm using windows - is that a problem?)?

The second issue is trying to convert the opt partition to ext4.
since i am a windows user, i am trying to create an ext4 partition using a windows application called using "Minitool partition wizard" (because i wasn't able to boot without the opt partition - i get a crash, probably because of a few symlinks i made to save space on rootfs). I can create and format an ext4, but the next step which i believe i should do is use backupmenu to restore my opt backup to the new partition - can someone who's using ext4 opt partition post the "BackupMenu.item"? i tried to modify it myself but with the changes suggested in earlier posts backupmenu does not start at all...

to second:

The not starting backupmenu is installed in the opt partition. There are different ways to do this, maybe you can ...

... boot from a linux live-cd or install ubuntu into virtualbox (it has usb 2.0 support).
- boot the n900 into backupmenu and activate USB Mass Storage Mode.
- convert the opt partition from ext3 to ext4 without losing data with tune2fs http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/05/ext2-ext3-ext4/.

or

... boot into Backupmenu and go to root console (t).
- use parted ... print all and look for the partiton number, normaly /opt is mmcblk0p2.
- mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 to /tmp/mnt/optfs
- mount an ext3/4 partition (from sd?) to /tmp/mnt/sd
- copy -a * from .../optfs to .../sd
- format mmcblk0p2 with parted to ext4
- copy -a * back from .../sd to .../optfs

I don't fully understand - why not using the method i used? the only issue/s with it is making backupmenu compatible for ext4 and changing the mount command in "rcS-late" - am i wrong?

By the way - did anyone try to use the reiser4 partition? it seems its performance improvement is quite impressive:

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthrea...iser4-and-Ext4).

So, lets see. I dunno; I may come back and help a little again.
I've just grabbed all my old files, put together my n900 folder(fortunately most of my files were on my N900 so I didn't lose much when my HD got wiped). Also, I now have a N900 with a working USB port, so I can safely mess with things.

Anyway, I just grabbed the last copy I had, added libacl1 to the dependencies(just in case; there's a good reason I added it I'm sure), upped the version and uploaded it to devel.

Now, I've been out of the loop for many months; can one of you guys please give me a summary of what's happened, what changes I could make to improve, and what would help.

I can't say I'll be able to do everything - I now have a 40+hr a week job, and am only at my main computer on weekends - but I can help out a bit.
Also, I'm always in #maemo on Freenode, so...

I thought your problem was (after format of opt to ext4) a not anymore into backupmenu booting device, where you want to restore opt. These two ways get you around this.
I suggested backupmenu can handle ext4. But never tried.

Actually, that brings up a change you guys suggested but never got implemented: auto-ext4 support.
What's the best way to check the type of filesystem it is, considering the limits of my platform?

edit:
Oh, yeah. If any of you guys can get i2c-tools promoted to -testing, we can get BackupMenu in testing too.

Possibly ?

Yup, worked like a charm. I'll have a version out tomorrow, maby. Or next week, depending.