Thread: copying main filesystem from one N800 to another
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2009-06-24 , 03:46
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OK, I got the rest via PM so here it is for others. With linux PC there is another easier way. The restore part can be done with usb flasher.

Originally Posted by mrcrispin
I was hoping to be able to flash the new machine without ever booting it, much less going to the trouble of jailbreaking and installing little pieces just to be able to boot from an SD which I would have to build separately. That's why I mentioned the Windows machine, where I have Nokia's flasher. Isn't there some way to make a Nokia flash file out of the rootfs.jff2 file?
There is a way but not with Windows. Full firmware *.bin (FIASCO) image is bootloader(in 3 parts)+initfs+kernel+rootfs. You can flash just rootfs part but only with linux (or macos).
Originally Posted by mrcrispin
Anyway, if it makes things easier, I also have an x86 Ubuntu Linux (and an AMD64 Ubuntu, x86 Mac, and PPC Mac!) all sitting on my desk.
Perfect. That makes things much easier. Get command line flasher from http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/d3.php and firmware from http://tablets-dev.nokia.com/nokia_N800.php as described in http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware.

First reflash new device with same OS version you had on old device so you get matching bootloader, kernel etc (new device may come with OS2008 and you mentioned you stay with OS2007), and then you can flash just the rootfs.faster.jffs2. It can be done in one flashing session with two flasher commands
Code:
flasher -F fiascoimage.bin -f
flasher -r rootfs.faster.jffs2  -f -R
See also http://wiki.maemo.org/Flasher

You'll be flashing rootfs twice but that it easier than excluding it from first flashing command.
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