[android] new cupcake image

Davide Scaini dscaini at gmail.com
Fri May 29 09:44:13 CEST 2009


It would be great if installable on sd card...
is it possible with this image?
thanks
d

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 8:15 AM, undrwater <undrwater at verizon.net> wrote:

>
> I followed the instructions, but didn't get any further.  I was using uboot
> modified to allow kernels greater than 2mb, and I tried qi as well.
> Symptoms are the same.
>
> I wonder if it's possible to pack this up the way Koolu has done?
>
> Curiosities:
> Why are we using parted as opposed to fdisk or other?  I had to install a
> tool that wasn't already available on my system.
>
> It might help me to understand the need for such a partition scheme for
> Android.  Is there any way to access it while the animated splash is in
> effect?
>
> Thanks!
> Russell Dwiggins
>
> Olivier Berger wrote:
> >
> > Russell Hay <russellh at ysmail.net> writes:
> >
> >>
> >> 2009/5/20 Russell Dwiggins <undrwater at verizon.net>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I'm wondering if it has something to do with the partitioning of the SD
> >>> card?  The wiki confused me because it instructs one to fdisk the card
> >>> with
> >>> 2 linux partitions (83), then format one with FAT and one with ext3.  I
> >>> fdisked the fat partition with vfat (0b) and formatted with vfat, could
> >>> that
> >>> be the problem?
> >>>
> >
> >> In case you've not seen it, here's the video and the flashing
> >> instructions..
> >> http://www.newlc.com/en/freerunner-mobile-which-support-android-cupcake
> >
> > The resulting partitioning should look like unless you wouldn't be sure :
> >
> > # sudo parted -s /dev/sdc print
> > Model: Generic STORAGE DEVICE (scsi)
> > Disk /dev/sdc: 2033MB
> > Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> > Partition Table: msdos
> >
> > Number  Start  End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
> >  1      3584B  128MB   128MB   primary  fat16        lba
> >  2      128MB  256MB   128MB   primary  ext3
> >  3      256MB  2033MB  1777MB  primary  fat16        lba
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > --
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