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"Noob's Delight" or "the Uber-N8x0-Walkthrough..."
When I say that I think I may be understating what I've done here.
Put my money where my mouth is and created a Video Tutorial How to...going from how to use Nokia Software Update wiz on winxp/win7 ...to sd card formatting...to flashing the latest firmware...to installing and utilizing xterm and root privileges...to partitioning an sd/ mini/ micro card and cloning the onboard firmware to said card with penguinbait's console tools v1 ...installing bootmenu...and so then picking things up from there and further enhancing your device longevity and usefulness by then running your system off the sd card instead and then continuing installations on it updating and upgrading the cloned operating system ... to installing Advanced System U. I. ...to installing C.S.S.U. ...to getting Diablo Turbo up and running (it being far more current than) replacing the old 2008 Diablo ...to finally mucking around inside the application manager and getting all those sweet repositories working properly (and a small surprise there too concerning how great the good ol' Wayback Machine really is concerning (some...not all) broken catalogues...)...
(please note : just the few references during this part of repo modification is example only...you aren't done yet ...you must also have a desire/ innate curiosity to do some basic research which of the gronmayer repos have conflicting and or outdated bits and omit those ones accordingly (Also...The time it would take would be a whole set of vids just on repos alone...not to mention it would take the exploratory learning/ fun out of it for you...perhaps in the future I'll take the time and give a comprehensive list of catalogues that don't have conflicts...)....
otherwise if you aren't interested/ curious in all the additional repos don't install gronmayers catalogues ...simply utilize maemo extras ...extras devel, extras testing, sdk and a couple others are perfectly fine for general or specific need/ use.
Whew...frickin' mouth-full ...
I knew it was going to be harder to video and explain while I did it...since I have been doing blind-folded and thoughtlessly forever now...and I was right. It was a trick. Took forever to finish this I swear...Gadzooks I was dreading doing it knowing how much fun it would be to video and explain the process...but...it's done and I feel better knowing that an easy-peasy walkthrough is available now .
So the whole thing is done from the perspective of talking to someone who knows nothing at all of maemo....or linux for that matter.
I used one of my n800's for this little how to (the n810 has a couple of differences in proceedure and I explain what they are so this guide is just as applicable ) ...unfortunately the font size during the console tools v1 section is blurry since I used a font size of 8 and the camera had a hard time with that...past that I do believe I was thorough in explaining exactly what I was doing even then.
10 segments no more than 11 minutes long at the most...explaining and showing how to do a process that takes less than an hour in real time.

So yeah....here is the "how to" for people who need to "see" how to do it and have a prob with a ton of text, posts and threads here there and everywhere. This will save you a ton of stress, eye and brain strain.
For the new or old owner of a n8x0 that never took that step into the unknown...the faint of heart...those who have suffered brain-eating mind-worms from planet j....or have suffered memory loss from good drugs, bad drugs, seizures or strokes that didn't kill them....
The Ultimate "hold-yer-hand-and-walk-you-through-it-for-setting-up-your-n8x0-like-a-pro-to-really-enjoy-the-little-bugger" Guide

I suggest to open up your pc web browser and open all the links below in their order and have them set up each in their own window for easy reference ...prior to viewing...it will make it easier for you.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160117...ate_Wizard.exe

https://web.archive.org/web/20131117.../#sdk_releases

http://av.jpn.support.panasonic.com/...s/sd/download/

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=25714 IF PENGUINBAITS CONSOLE TOOLS V1 IS NON-FUNCTIONING CHECK MY CLOUD FOLDER FOR IT AND OTHER PERTINENT FILES HERE *

http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=168

http://asui.garage.maemo.org/download.html

http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=69740

https://garage.maemo.org/frs/?group_id=2036

http://www.gronmayer.com/it/

next the vids in specific...please view them in titled order p1, p2, p3 ...etc....

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6r...VoQJpFA/videos

*And here are very pertinent files pertaining to the above available for immediate download from my cloud.
check out the folders ...
it has the essential penguinbait console tools v1 and other important stuffs...helpful to the ease of the process.

"The n8x0 Google Drive Treasure Vault."
https://drive.google.com/drive/folde...J9?usp=sharing

I don't think I missed anything...I'm sure someone will remind me if I did...so now ...finally...there is absolutely...positively...ABSO-FRICKIN-SMURF-LY no reason whatsoever why a complete newbie or even a rutabaga... hospitalized... in a coma... on life-support ...can't understand how to get their device up and running properly and fly like it should be.
And for any who ask "why go to all the bother of doing this?"
don't believe me...
look up the benefits of :
-diablo turbo
-of cssu
-of asui
-of cloning your operating system to an external sd card and running your system from it instead of the onboard os.
This is just an eensy bit of what you can now do very very easily.
This how to gives you a leg up so-to-speak...showing there isn't anything to fear...in fact...once you have accomplished doing everything here...your device will not only run smoother, better, with less probs...it is actually less worrying for you if anything goes horribly wrong...if you go exploring (like you should) or if you monkey with stuff (like you should)...or simply want to mess with how this cool toy works (like you should)..it is only an easily replaced sd card....not your device that takes the terrible hit..repeat the above procedure and clone over the card or if it is caput with a new sd card...(alot cheaper than buying a brand new/ used n8x0 in good shape)...and you are good to go again...no worries. Pretty hard to brick your device when it's all running from your card.

Not to mention...now that you see how easy it is to partition, clone and run your diablo from an sd card..now you are a couple easy steps away from understanding and running easy debian or easy mer....or trying Ubuntu or XFCE or Kubuntu or Enlightenment or Nitdroid or whatever operating system you set your mind to trying out on your n8x0...

Don't want to do all this fun stuff to protect and enhance your device?
Hey that's cool too....your choice...i and others respect that
But you really should pull out a nappy ...you should be sweating buckets...
This video how to doesn't get any simpler, easier or "muck-up proof"...
Just gotta have enough patience to watch and follow the advice...

So if you don't want to listen and you go and screw up your device by monkeying around having fun with the onboard ...

REMEMBER: (It ain't easy but)...YOU CAN BRICK IT INTO A CUTE PAPERWEIGHT....

Don't you dare come cryin' then...
Just sayin' ....
U bin warn'd.


If by chance any link I supply here doesn't work...please notify me and I'll try to sort it out for you..
Thanks..endso

Please now head over to part 2 here
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php...25#post1408625
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