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juiceme | # 601 | 2013-10-08, 20:15 | Report

Originally Posted by juiceme View Post

Good point. No, it is not yet.
I'll update that immediately.

Done, Now I have uploaded the archive ubiboot-02_0.3.4_081013.tar to both Swagman and Skeiron.
I'll have to edit tha announcement posts too.

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peterleinchen | # 602 | 2013-10-08, 21:08 | Report

Originally Posted by juiceme View Post

Actually It has changed radically

When doing diff of the 050613 and current there are 11 new files in the FS and 316 changed rows in the existing configuration files !

On top of that all the changes to the files in CPIO... I'd say I have done quite a few hours of work on it

@juice
I did not want to disparage your (great and much appreciated) work, just did not see the new ubifs online and did not take snapshot of your svn (maybe I should have?).

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juiceme | # 603 | 2013-10-08, 21:33 | Report

Originally Posted by peterleinchen View Post

@juice
I did not want to disparage your (great and much appreciated) work, just did not see the new ubifs online and did not take snapshot of your svn (maybe I should have?).

heh, it was just a joke

But of course you can do "svn co" on the repo, or browse via web using the link. I'll upload a new snapshot to Swagman&Skeiron at some point, but propably not yet, as I am still honing out smallish things on it... but the SVN repo is always up to date, feel free to comment on my code

And ideas/enhancements are always welcome!

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zaidk9 | # 604 | 2013-10-09, 06:24 | Report

Can i install nitroid to MyDocs partition instead of home/user/nitdroid??
I want to save home/user storage
If i install nitdroid to home/user/nitdroid, whenever i use nitdroid install apps and games, will all these install to home/user/nitdroid or in MyDocs??

juiceme | # 605 | 2013-10-09, 07:21 | Report

Originally Posted by zaidk9 View Post

Can i install nitroid to MyDocs partition instead of home/user/nitdroid??
I want to save home/user storage
If i install nitdroid to home/user/nitdroid, whenever i use nitdroid install apps and games, will all these install to home/user/nitdroid or in MyDocs??

The problem with that is that Nitdroid itself wants to mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 as SDCARD. If you use it as the Nitdroid root directory it is going to cause few problems...

Possible solutions:
1. modify Nitdroid initialization so that it does not want to have a different partition for SDCARD. (you also lose ability to export partition via USB)
2. create partition 4 (or if you already have Nemo on partition 4, use that as /nitdroid or create a new partition 5) and install your Nitdroid to that partition.

peterleinchen | # 606 | 2013-10-09, 07:38 | Report

Furthermore to mention MyDocs is most probably vfat and not extfs, so: NO.

juiceme | # 607 | 2013-10-09, 07:50 | Report

Originally Posted by peterleinchen View Post

Furthermore to mention MyDocs is most probably vfat and not extfs, so: NO.

Yes, that's true. ( altough mine has been vfat, extfat, ext4 during varioust times... no need really to keep it vfat

)

mcbook | # 608 | 2013-10-09, 15:09 | Report

Originally Posted by juiceme View Post

Yes, that's true. ( altough mine has been vfat, extfat, ext4 during varioust times... no need really to keep it vfat )

Ah, I have a little issue here but it's probably a nitdroid issue

so my MyDocs partition is ext4 and nitdroid keeps asking to format it (recognizes it as SD Card...)
Sd card fix doesn't work for me
I dont wanna do that because i fear it will erase a lot of stuff^^

peterleinchen | # 609 | 2013-10-14, 16:46 | Report

[OT]
Do you remember me crying that the touchscreen does not react after boot up (and being connected to charger?

Originally Posted by peterleinchen View Post

And another report
sometimes the menu does not react on touch. So I try to select a kernel, but the touch is not recognized. And then menu times out.
Did you notice that, too?

Sorry for being very late with the solution!

This post of Jonni reminded again to write it down here again.
I have a few chargers (all N900 ones) spread over my house. And it was/is really one specific charger (original Nokia N900!!!), that does this.
I came aware after waking up in the night seeing some ghostly usage of my N9. Touchscreens was lightened up and some random actions were executed. From reading a bit here I already knew that this was due to a bad shielded charger cable (or something like this), so I tested it with my other chargers and none of them had this behavior. Also this touchscreen blocking did not occur again.
Maybe it is due to some adapter UK-->EU (this problematic one is an original Nokia N900 charger from UK)?

Long story short, it was the charger. And it did not happen again!
[/OT]

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juiceme | # 610 | 2013-10-29, 23:32 | Report

Released ubiboot-02 (integrated) version, rev. 0.3.5.

New features:

Support for SSHD & SFTPD in the maintanance mode
Better chekcking for error conditions
Strict version checks
Better logging
New kernel layout support larger initramfs
New version of ubiboot.conf

Bug fixes:

Fixed typos in template ubiboot.conf.

General enhancements:

Rewrote the README document from scratch
Handling of RSA certificates
Added clearer GPLv2 licensing
Reorganized the svn repository
Changes in the kernel build environment

Work in progress:

Ported wpa_supplicant for WLAN configuration
Lot of work towards WLAN initialization, yet incomplete.

Get it fresh from HERE
See the README file
See the Changelog

Installation notes:
Again, just as last time, this version is not compatible with any files from the previous versions. Hence you need to review your current ubiboot.conf and put your kernel configuration into the new ubiboot.conf file.

The files are also uploaded at Skeiron, for your convenience:
ubiboot-02_0.3.5_301013.tar

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