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: 

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`
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