OSX OpenMoko Flasher trying to flash wrong partition (was: Re: [FDOM] new release 20080927)

[Peter Neubauer]

Hi there,
thanks for the update, will certainly give it a shot!

/peter

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On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Dr. H. Nikolaus Schaller
<hns at computer.org> wrote:
> Am 27.09.2008 um 23:16 schrieb Peter Neubauer:
>
>> Ahh,
>> using the command line dfu-util unstead of the MacOS OpneMoko-Flasher
>> I could start flashing. It seems that pointing out the FDOM download
>> location lists the .jffs as a RootFS, but the the FreeRunner is
>> reporting it is flashing to the partition "factory".
>
> will be fixed.
>
>> It seems the graphical frontend is becoming too outdated to be used
>> anymore ...
>
> An update (1.5) is done and has fixed many of these issues. The
> problem was that repositories have changed (e.g. buildhost ->
> downloads), files are renamed (e.g. uBoot-*.bin -> *-uBoot.bin) etc.
> without direct notice to us by the repository maintainers...
>
> Download:
>
> http://www.handheld-linux.com/wiki.php?page=Openmoko%20Flasher
>
>> Hope that helps others ...
>
> Please also help to maintain OpenMoko Flasher since it is open source.
> Bug fixes and patches are always welcome (but were very rarely
> proposed so far).
>
> Nikolaus Schaller
>
>>
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>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Peter Neubauer <peter at neubauer.se>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi there,
>>> trying to flash the new releases ...jffs as roofs, I get an exception
>>> not being able to flash from dfu-util and on the FreeRunner, "End of
>>> write exceeds particion end". Anything in my setup that is wrong?
>>>
>>> /peter
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>>>
>>> On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 5:15 AM, David Samblas
>>> <dsamblasomcommunity at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> on http://compartida.net/openmoko/FDOM/ you have disponible the
>>>> new FDOM
>>>> release.
>>>> I have just erase previous release because there are some annoying
>>>> bugs
>>>> withs calls and no sound.
>>>> But his has gone thanks to nickd,
>>>>
>>>> This release  is not as tested as 2008.08 ones but include things,
>>>> that
>>>> sure,  gonna make you smile, 29 Games :), orrery 2.0, a mplayer
>>>> frontend
>>>> pythm, and things than have the last updated not anounced jalimo
>>>> with
>>>> java se and me, navit, linphone (not tested but surely some people
>>>> will
>>>> smile twice, isn't it Michel Siloh? :) ) in addition to FDOM
>>>> "classics" :)
>>>>
>>>> As you may notice this is a large amount of programs so in order
>>>> to not
>>>> blow away the home with icons I have included a raw,dirty, and a
>>>> little
>>>> bit slow script in pygtk that acts as popupmenu /usr/bin/
>>>> FDsubmenu.py,
>>>> surely a c/elf program will be more quick and integrated but just
>>>> I have
>>>> no time to learn it(yet). Futures versions will include the icon
>>>> image.
>>>> Feel free to modify and add features of course.
>>>>
>>>> Regarding colaborations , First thanks nacho and armin because
>>>> without
>>>> them this release will has not been posible,
>>>> if you want to colaborate reporting bugs,improvements or
>>>> sugestions we
>>>> have a project in http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/fdom/ with a
>>>> devel list
>>>> http://lists.projects.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/fdom-development
>>>>
>>>> thanks to armin, we have also a svn server svn://zoup.org/Fdom
>>>> with an
>>>> 2008.09 that we want to transform in a better FDOM but here I call
>>>> for
>>>> help, Armin has his neo temporaly out of order, and I was unable
>>>> to put
>>>> the svn checkout to boot in a sd card, I want to do this to be
>>>> able to
>>>> have a quick way to summit changes, and have a more efective way
>>>> to make
>>>> various people to tweak the distro at same time.
>>>> So if any one succeded to boot froma svn extraction please contacr
>>>> us to
>>>> tell us how
>>>> I will try to update the wiki tomorrow with the modifications but
>>>> any
>>>> help will be apreciated here too :)
>>>>
>>>> I have not included the kernel image because still the 2008.09 one
>>>> http://downloads.openmoko.org/releases/Om2008.9/Om2008.9.uImage.bin
>>>>
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