Hi
After reading the how-to on Reading Flash Images, particularly the dbox2.rar section, could you tell me if this procedure will back up a nokia 3 menu box as arrived to me.
Neutrino
Neutrino Card
Emergency
Are these 3 separate compressed images or will the procedures in dbox2.rar back up all 3 as one image and the bootloader as described in the how-to.
It interests me to have a backup of the original to look at with newtuxtools and safety before I flash a different image.
Flashing is not a problem I'm just curious.
Many Thanks
A good new year with health and happiness to all.
Reading Flash Images
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The specified entries are probably from an illegal image, if I assume correctly, if you choose "Emergency" it will erase the flash in case the police knocks at your door.
Now go figure how that could possibly fit to an official project like tuxbox where all the main developers are known by their full name?
Right, not at all.
Anyway, since you said you didn't want to offend...
Been a while since I last started the dbox2-rar but IIRC this is just a small Linux distro which mounts an external drive through the bootmanager.
You then get access to the flashes through the MTD-devices which is a way to map the flashes to a device. So that way you can get the whole flash content but it's a binary 1:1 copy. You could reflash that copy the same way.
The NewTuxboxFlashTools are in fact pretty old and do not work anymore with the modern images.
Under Linux it should be possible to directly mount the images on the loop device but I'm not up to date with which images they work (there have been endianness issues, the PPC CPU of the dbox2 has a different byte order than PC CPUs and people tend to forget that while writing low level stuff ).
You see, I'm usually only NFS-mounting the CDK and never do much with images. I'm a developer and not a user.
But maybe someone else can tell you more.
Now go figure how that could possibly fit to an official project like tuxbox where all the main developers are known by their full name?
Right, not at all.
Anyway, since you said you didn't want to offend...
Been a while since I last started the dbox2-rar but IIRC this is just a small Linux distro which mounts an external drive through the bootmanager.
You then get access to the flashes through the MTD-devices which is a way to map the flashes to a device. So that way you can get the whole flash content but it's a binary 1:1 copy. You could reflash that copy the same way.
The NewTuxboxFlashTools are in fact pretty old and do not work anymore with the modern images.
Under Linux it should be possible to directly mount the images on the loop device but I'm not up to date with which images they work (there have been endianness issues, the PPC CPU of the dbox2 has a different byte order than PC CPUs and people tend to forget that while writing low level stuff
).You see, I'm usually only NFS-mounting the CDK and never do much with images. I'm a developer and not a user.
But maybe someone else can tell you more.
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