Hi. I am in the process of trying to partition and boot from my new 1 gig mem card. I am following the following tutorial ( http://maemo.org/community/wiki/howt...from_mmc_card/ )
and I am up to the part where I need to format the partition. I need to do the following command, # mkdosfs /dev/mmcblk0p1, but when I type this in xterm, the following error comes up, /dev/mmcblk0pl: No such file or directory

So, I assume I am missing the mkdosfs file, and I hope that one of you can help me complete this part by directing me where I may locate and install this mkdosfs .

Any help here will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

did you check your /dev/ folder and see if there was mmcblk0p1 in it?

from my personal experience, that error only comes up when the thing that you are referring to doesn't exist.

Make sure you didn't accidentally type an "l" instead of a "1" or a "o" instead of a "0" in the command. That happened to me and I got the error message you described.

Thanks for the tips. Is it supposed to be a 0 (zero) or an O (Letter O) ?? I have been putting it in as a Zero.

Supposed to be zero and one.

It stands for block 0, partition 1.

One way to make sure that you have mkdosfs is simply to type mkdosfs on the command line and hit enter. If it complains that you haven't specified a device, it exists.

If it doesn't seem to exist, perhaps you aren't logged in as root.

O.K. thanks again for everyones tips. I was able to get past that point and now I have completed formating the partitions and installing the initfs_flasher .

I answered all the questions and rebooted. I succesfully ran this line insmod /mnt/initfs/lib/modules/current/ext2.ko , but when trying to mount (mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /opt ), I get one of the following errors. Either:
mount: Mounting /dev/mmcblk0p2 on /opt failed: No such file or directory
Or, if I type: mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 without the /opt option, I get :
Can't find /dev/mmcblk0p2 in /etc/fstab.

I am soooo close to finishing this. Please help me get over this hump !!!!
Should I format the memory card and try all the steps again from the begining ???, or is there an easy solution to this ???
Also, is there a tutorial for the xterm commands ??. I would love to know the commands for exploring folders and files, and deleting files, etc.