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June, 2010

Installing Ubuntu 10.04 Server 64bit via USB Pendrive

After struggling with installing Ubuntu Server 10.04 from a bootable usb stick, here are some hints in case anyone else ever wants to do this. My problem was that the Server Installer kept trying to load files from the CD and could not find them, which made the installation fail. I actually wonder why it [...]

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Flashing PR 1.2 to the N900 from Ubuntu 10.04 64bit

To install flasher, do sudo dpkg -i –force-architecture maemo_flasher-3.5_2.5.2.2_i386.deb afterwards, install ia32-libs from multiverse: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs Before installing ia32-libs flasher kept telling me this: ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Desktop$ flasher-3.5 bash: /usr/bin/flasher-3.5: No such file or directory Now, to flash PR1.2 and the vanilla eMMC content, issue the following two commands: sudo flasher-3.5 -F RX-51_2009SE_10.2010.19-1_PR_COMBINED_MR0_ARM.bin -f sudo [...]

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