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I've uploaded a video on how to flash your n900 with a LiveCD. I should probably add a few annotations, but I think it's good for a start.
Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CblPiVd1QOs


Any thoughts?

-Rob
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Bump. It's up now.
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I highly recommend downloading MD5SUMS from the images page aswell. then doing
Code:
md5sum -c MD5SUMS
to make sure your image is good.
 

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Oh haha. For a second I thought its gonna teach us how to flash the image onto the 900 for booting Ubuntu there.
 
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thanks a lot from that,
now just add a link to:

http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_tablet_firmware

and possibly also to:
http://wiki.maemo.org/Maemo5_101
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Originally Posted by jimmcheung View Post
Oh haha. For a second I thought its gonna teach us how to flash the image onto the 900 for booting Ubuntu there.
Yep I dream to have boot N900 with external DVD drive.


BTW, Robbie you look great with your brows.
 
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Hm... That would require a proper USB driver + hostmode implemented in a u-boot module, I suppose.
I know its possible to boot off a USB->ATA adaptor connected to an internal CD drive, at least with an x86-compatible PC.
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What is the smallest distribution that boots straight to terminal and still has wide HW support out of box?

I´m thinking that just downloading more than 100 Mb just for flashing purpose is just bit too much.
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
What is the smallest distribution that boots straight to terminal and still has wide HW support out of box?

I´m thinking that just downloading more than 100 Mb just for flashing purpose is just bit too much.
Gentoo Live CDs aren't much bigger than 100MiB and boot to a shell. You'll have to run dhcpcd or configure the network manually yourself after booting. I've used them on a plethora of desktop and server machines and never had a problem with hardware drivers, although I've never tried to use WiFi from the Live CD; this may present problems.
 
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
What is the smallest distribution that boots straight to terminal and still has wide HW support out of box?

I´m thinking that just downloading more than 100 Mb just for flashing purpose is just bit too much.
Nothing is too much to save your precious device
 
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