Flashing from powerpc and linux

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On Thursday 06 December 2007 07:56:02 pm Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> Where is the 2008 Beta available at?  At maemo.org I saw something
> asking for a serial number which I didn't have.  Am I looking
> someplace incorrectly?
>
> On 12/6/07, Bob Crawford <crawdad at powerclam.com> wrote:
> > digger vermont wrote:
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > Just got an N800 today. :)
> > >
> > > It looks like the only way to flash it from a powerpc and linux
> > > is to use 0xFFFF.  Is that correct?
> > >
> > > It doesn't look like it can yet flash the image as a whole. 
> > > But it can unpack the it into pieces as:
> > >
> > > 2nd, kernel, rootfs, xloader, initfs, secondary
> > >
> > > Will it work for me to then install the individual pieces?  Or
> > > will I be missing something?


The "serial" number is also you mac address either look under the 
battery cover or on the label on the box you n800 came in.  In both 
cases it will look something like

WLAN xxxxxxxxxxx

James

> >
> > I've flashed from linux several times onto my 770s and now my
> > 810, and have never needed to unpack components first...
> > just download the flasher and the image, run the flasher with the
> > command line from the howto on the maemo.org site.
> > I can see the flasher breaking out the various components as it
> > installs them one by one onto the tablet.
> > Can't imagine it'd be different on PPC...
> >
> >
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