User:Tanner
Tips and tricks:
Repartitioning
Reflashing & Restore
this is a slightly modified version of the script I use to restore my N900 after a reflash. My reflashing procedure is:
- use Backup and store everything on SD card
- reflash with standard http://wiki.maemo.org/Updating_the_firmware, i.e.
sudo flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_2.2009.51-1_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f -R
- restore old backup except programs
- install gainroot
- in Terminal:
sudo su - /home/backup/restore
with following script in /home/backup (feedback and patches are welcome). It excepts that did a backup of /root and your selected modified files (e.g. /etc/ssh) in /home/backup. the file minimal should contain a list (line by line) of the package names you want to install.
#!/bin/sh # N900 restore script # © 2010 by Thomas Tanner <tanner@maemory.com> # licensed under GPLv3 set -x # script and data must be in /home/backup cd /home/backup # remove old opt rm -rf /home/opt mkdir /home/opt # copy /root backup rm -rf /root cp -a root / # copy modifed files for /etc cp -a etc/* /etc # enable user ssh login with ~/.ssh/authorized_keys sed 's/^user:!/user:\*/' /etc/passwd > /etc/passwd.tmp cp /etc/passwd.tmp /etc/passwd # mv # move root stuff to /home dirs="usr/share/icons usr/share/nokia-maps usr/share/themes usr/share/fonts usr/share/locale usr/lib/locale var/lib/apt" #optional: var/lib/dpkg if test -d /home/var/cache/apt; then # keep existing apt cache rm -rf /var/cache/apt ln -s /home/var/cache/apt /var/cache/apt else dirs="$dirs var/cache/apt" fi (cd / && du -sc $dirs) for d in $dirs; do test -L /$d && continue echo moving /$d rm -rf /home/$d mkdir -p /home/$d cp -a /$d /home/$d/.. rm -rf /$d ln -s /home/$d /$d done mount /home/user/MyDocs # non-standard partition layout apt-get update apt-get -y install mc python-support openssh-server # install my standard set of packages apt-get -y install `cat minimal`