Ville, you are right - pain is a very fluid concept. I will test your way and report the results. I just don't fancy setting 50 units by and. Thank you, julius On Thu, 3 Jul 2008, Ville Reijonen wrote: > > > Dear Folks, > > What is the best way to clone an N800? As I need to be able to > > roll out a bunch of them - 30 now, 20 in a couple months I'd love to get a > > "Golden Image" and copy it over very quickly to new tablets. > > Pain is so relative consept. I did this in old 770 days.. preparation > took time but flashing was a breeze.. step by step: > > PHASE 1 - Prepare: > 1) Make the base install on one device. > 2) Modify it as far as you can so that it is good for every device. > 3) Tar the rootfs (with gnu tar) to memory card. > 4) Make device dependent modification. > 5) Tar the individual rootfs to memory card. > 6) Compare the tar packages, and see if there is some way to automate > the individual change as a script. > 7) Repeat 4-6 for every device dependent change.. or do them all at once :) > > PHASE 2 - Create custom image: > 1) Unpack Nokia FIASCO image for rootfs (with flasher program) or create > right size jffs2 rootfs image. > 2) Mount the rootfs image (guide in maemo wiki), replace contents with > the tar you have on the memory card. > 3) put your customizing script for example into /etc/rc2.d/ and make > sure that the script file is deleted in the end. > 4) packages which have to be installed on the device, put them in the > image into some folder like "/" and install those with dpkg from the > script or "apt-get -y" them over the air from the script, delete > packages after installing. > > PHASE 3 - Flash: > 1) Flash the image in parts with your own rootfs replacing the original. > 2) Boot the device. If packages are installed, some ui action is needed. > Or maybe you customized the package so that there is no need. > > P.S. Script debugging is easier when the output goes to a file.. :) > > -- > VRe > _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
