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joefru is offline joefru
2007-07-11 , 20:33
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I want to dual-boot my 770. OS2006 on internal flash, OS2007HE on 1GB MMCMobile. (Who doesn't?)

Question 1: Is there a concise guide to doing this? The wiki guide doesn't mention OS2007HE compatibility.

Question 2: Do I have to partiton? Why not have one big partition? I realize that Windows PCs can't mount an ext2 partition (though there is a driver available), but all my PCs are Linux-based, so that's okay. I would want to partition for swap, though.

Thanks.
 
Chinpokomon is offline Chinpokomon
2007-07-13 , 06:45
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I'd like to add to this:

Question 3: With a 2GB card, can I have more than one flash image on perhaps additional partitions? I'd like to run with MMC1 VFAT, MMC2 OS2006, MMC3 OS2007HE and configure the bootmenu to have MMC3 as another option.
 
fanoush is offline fanoush
2007-07-13 , 08:31
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Originally Posted by joefru
Question 1: Is there a concise guide to doing this? The wiki guide doesn't mention OS2007HE compatibility.
It is same as 2006 and similar to 2007 on n800 (i.e. the usb storage fix).
Originally Posted by joefru
Question 2: Do I have to partiton? Why not have one big partition? I realize that Windows PCs can't mount an ext2 partition (though there is a driver available), but all my PCs are Linux-based, so that's okay. I would want to partition for swap, though.
Do what you want but the system will be slightly confused without first partition being FAT so you need some custom hacking to fix this. It is easier to have it. You can put swapfile there at least.

BTW consider searching this forum before posting, both questions were already asked (and answered) few times.

Originally Posted by Chinpokomon View Post
Question 3: With a 2GB card, can I have more than one flash image on perhaps additional partitions? I'd like to run with MMC1 VFAT, MMC2 OS2006, MMC3 OS2007HE and configure the bootmenu to have MMC3 as another option.
Then read the README.txt inside initfs_flasher.tgz

Personally I use VFAT + three ext3 partitions (2006,2007HE, temporary one for sardine or other experiments)

Or search this forum, people did it before. In fact I think all possible questions related to booting from mmc were already asked (and answered) few times here in this forum :-)
 
Chinpokomon is offline Chinpokomon
2007-07-13 , 08:49
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Originally Posted by fanoush View Post
...Then read the README.txt inside initfs_flasher.tgz

Personally I use VFAT + three ext3 partitions (2006,2007HE, temporary one for sardine or other experiments)

Or search this forum, people did it before. In fact I think all possible questions related to booting from mmc were already asked (and answered) few times here in this forum :-)
Then thank you for taking the time to answer yet again.

I'll admit I haven't used the search feature as much as I should, but I figured as long as someone was looking for answers, I'd ask something related that might also be useful to them. I followed the EASIER guides on the wiki, and aside from having xterm crash back to the desktop while moving the the OS from flash to the SD card, things went quite smootly. I didn't see anything about creating additional bootmenu items and naturally after reading the guides I didn't read the readme's that came with anything. ;-)

I've only had my Nokia for a little over a week now, but it continues to wow and bedazzle folks. "No! It isn't an iPhone. It's better. I can run Doom and XTerm." If only I could VPN into work...
 
Bree is offline Bree
2007-07-13 , 09:39
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whats stopping you using remote desktop or a vnc to access your work computer.... i use both and they work very well with a half decent connection...
 
joefru is offline joefru
2007-07-14 , 03:16
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I've tried searching. I am amazed at the number of posts here that refer to an exrternal resource without linking to it. Plus, most were about OS2006. Saying something like "you do it the normal way except you do this" isn't helpful unless you're familiar with 'the normal way.'
 
Chinpokomon is offline Chinpokomon
2007-07-14 , 07:39
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Originally Posted by Bree View Post
whats stopping you using remote desktop or a vnc to access your work computer.... i use both and they work very well with a half decent connection...
At the risk of going off topic, I don't think I'd even try to access my desktop. I run two widescreen very high resolution monitors... what I really need is to access other network resources that I can connect to over xterm. Of course, those resources are on a private and secure network. Hence my delima. I couldn't even remote desktop or VNC in unless I had a VPN implementation.
 
dewzenol is offline dewzenol
2007-08-12 , 09:08
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If your desktop is running Windows, the resolution is irrelevant. Remote Desktop can open up a new non-console session, and it can use whatever resolution you want. In Windows that's accomplished with:
mstsc /v:host /w:800 /h:600
(for example)
I believe rdesktop for the 770/800 automatically specifies the resolution of the device. It is a bit cramped though!

Anyone know how to double-click in rdesktop from your 770????????????????
Or how about special key combinations? Ctrl/alt/etc

Guess this post is off topic...
 
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