[maemo-users] Flashing from powerpc and linux

[From: Jonathan Jesse]

Where is the 2008 Beta available at?  At maemo.org I saw something
asking for a serial number which I didn't have.  Am I looking
someplace incorrectly?
On 12/6/07, Bob Crawford <crawdad at powerclam.com> wrote:
> digger vermont wrote:
> > Hello All,
> >
> > Just got an N800 today. :)
> >
> > It looks like the only way to flash it from a powerpc and linux is to
> > use 0xFFFF.  Is that correct?
> >
> > It doesn't look like it can yet flash the image as a whole.  But it can
> > unpack the it into pieces as:
> >
> > 2nd, kernel, rootfs, xloader, initfs, secondary
> >
> > Will it work for me to then install the individual pieces?  Or will I be
> > missing something?
> >
> I've flashed from linux several times onto my 770s and now my 810, and
> have never needed to unpack components first...
> just download the flasher and the image, run the flasher with the
> command line from the howto on the maemo.org site.
> I can see the flasher breaking out the various components as it installs
> them one by one onto the tablet.
> Can't imagine it'd be different on PPC...
>
>
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