Thread: CFdisk seems to be missing. Someone help!
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rafpac is offline rafpac
2011-08-16 , 12:56
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Originally Posted by jedi View Post
What instructions are you following?

Also, copy/paste all the text from x-term to here so we can see what you're doing...
Alright I have downloaded the auto installer from extras devel on my nokia n900. When I run the installer first it unmounts the mmc from the phone and then it tries to format the different partitions. One partition being for the secondary memory for the phone the other being partitioned for app space. (atleast as far as i have understood).
Now the thing is when it is trying to format the mmc the installer hangs on when it is formatting something called mmcblk1p2 (where I assume the mmcblk1 is the sd card and p2 means partition 2.

Now I have read on:
http://www.nitdroid.com/index.php?ti...-Autoinstaller

This problem is a common problem for the installer when it is trying to format certain 16GB mmcs. And that site suggests to partition the mmc manually.

Originally Posted by WebSite

Workaround: Partition card manually:

root
apt-get install cfdisk
cfdisk -z /dev/mmcblk1

First partition would be for vfat, select New, type 14g, select type for it 0c (win32 LBA)
Second is for NITDroid - rest of card space
Select write and quit cfdisk.

mkfs.vfat -F 32 /dev/mmcblk1p1
mke2fs -L NITDroid -j -m0 /dev/mmcblk1p2
nitdroid

Last command will run installer again - now without problems.
Now as you know I can't seem to find cf disk anywhere and need to go by with sfdick. So if you know anything about it please let me know. Thanks for your help so far.