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Posts: 6 | Thanked: 1 time | Joined on Oct 2010
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Hello everyone.

I am looking for a way to turn my N900 into a rescue disk for my PC.

Motivation:
I am out of my country now with a laptop and my N900. I need to install a printer driver in my XP, but I couldn't do that without adm rights.
I used to have a bootcd to boot my linux partition in the laptop, but i forgot it at home. (Since I lost my bootmenu after an upgrade, I cannot acess my linux without my usb bootdisk).

Other solutions:
1 - use another pc and unetbootin to create another bootdisk;
ok, but I don't know anyone here that could help me (I am in another country, remember?)

2 - Buy a linux bootcd.
I did not found that easy anywhere here in France.

Motivation:
Since I think that would be a nice tool to carry along (I aways forget my USB disk, but never my phone), I need some help at using my N900 to create my bootdisk. I found how to use sfdisk (and even cfdisk) to build the partitions at the microSD card and make it bootable, but I didn't manage to prepare the bootmenu.

Did anyone know how to do that using only N900?
I miss unetbootin for N900 so much right now...

Future:
If there is a good solution, it would be a nice addition make a downloadable tool in the N900 repositories (or even android, as I do have here a galaxy S3 but it's not rooted yet).

Thanks in avance.
 

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