Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

I have been trying to follow the directions at http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowT..._From_MMC_card

But encountering so many errors. I have had to do this 3 times now and still I can't get it to work.

Right now I get errors when I get to installing dual boot menu. When I enter "# dpkg -x tar*.deb /tar-temp/" it says that "dpkg-deb: failed to read archive tar*deb' : No such file or director"

Any ideas?

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

The error says that there is no tar package in your current directory. Are you sure that you have downloaded the deb package (apt-get -d install tar) and moved to the right directory (cd /var/cache/apt/archives/) before running dpkg?

You can check your current directory with command "pwd" and the contents of this directory with "ls".

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

Do you literally type in the "#"-sign in front of each command ? If so, start from the beginning without typing it.
Be sure that there even exists the tar-....-.deb file in /var/cache/apt/archives/ after apt-get downloaded it (apt-get should ask for confirmation if you want to download and may warn that the archive is not digitally signed. You have to answer "y" to both questions)
Do not forget the "-d" between "apt-get" and "install" as this will break your system

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

not typing in the # sign. its already there. I got it to work eventually, no idea why it just decided to work, but when I get to the end of the instructions the xterm window just closes without warning and the boot into mmc works, but doesnt show the extended file system. any ideas?

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

Hi,

I am following the steps given in the following link http://maemo.org/community/wiki/HowT..._From_MMC_card but at this step

# apt-get -d install tar
# cd /var/cache/apt/archives/
# mkdir /tar-temp/
# dpkg -x tar*.deb /tar-temp/
# /tar-temp/bin/tar cf - -C /floppy . | /tar-temp/bin/tar xvf - -C /opt


I am getting this error...I am really not sure what it is?

/home/user # apt-get -d install tar
E: Malformed line 3 in source list /etc/apt/sources.list (absolute dist)
E: The list of sources could not be read.
/home/user #--

Please help me out....thanks.

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=8631

Install wget then step 7 onwards... :)

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

By the way, the error is due to your sources.list file becoming corrupted - restore a backup or check your last edit as something is incorrect on the 3rd line. Paste the content of the file here if you're not sure what it is (enter "cat /etc/apt/sources.list" at the command line to view it)

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

You may skip that step and download the compiled executable 'tar' from here:

http://degenerates.org/maemo/tar

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

That still leaves him with a knackered sources.list and no future ability to download applications...

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

Hi Milhouse,

as suggested, I have run this command here are the results, please let me know as to what I have to do next? Thanks a bunch for taking interest in my problem.:)

/home/user # cat /etc/apt/sources.list
#maemo:essential
deb http://catalogue.tableteer.nokia.com/certified/ mistral user
deb http://repository.maemo.org/ mistral/ free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/ mistral/ non-free
deb http://eko.one.pl/maemo/ mistral/ user
deb http://repository.maemo.org/ gregale/ free
deb http://repository.maemo.org/ gregale/ non-free
#maemo:name mg
deb http://mg.pov.lt/770 mistral user other
/home/user #

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

Where you have "mistral/" and "gregale/", remove the "/" (lines 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7).

Re: Extend Boot to MMC Problems
 

Hi Milhouse,

I am still getting the same error even after removing '/' this.

Thanks,

Santosh