Re: [Familiar] BootBlaster won't save wince_image.gz

From: Matthew Hixson (hixson@poindextrose.org)
Date: Mon Feb 11 2002 - 02:47:26 EST


To follow up on my own post... I hit my Ipaq's reset button and tried
saving wince_image.gz one more time. This time it worked. I have no idea
why, other than its probably the, "If its not working correctly reboot
it," fix that Windows usually requires.
  -M@

On Sun, 10 Feb 2002, Matthew Hixson wrote:

> I'm trying to use BootBlaster 1.18 on my 3765. I've saved
> BootBlaster_1.18.exe and bootldr-2.18.01.bin to \My Documents on my Ipaq
> (before doing so I md5 summed them and they checked out OK).
> I used Flash -> Save Bootldr to save saved_bootldr.bin in \My Documents.
> I copied that to my PC and removed it from the Ipaq. Next I tried Flash
> -> Save Wince.gz Format. This shows the status bar and it proceeds all
> the way across the screen. After a bit a dialog box appears that says,
>
> "Bad write #21244 to file \My Documents\wince_image.gz
> bytesWritten = 0"
>
> Clicking (Ok) in the upper right corner shows another dialog that says,
>
> "Wince failed to save to \My Documents\wince_image.gz.
> Error on segment 235."
>
> However, there is a \My Documents\wince_image.gz and it is 18514186 bytes
> in length.
>
> I've done this three times now and the numbers (#21244, 235, and the file
> size) are different each time.
>
> I followed a link to:
>
> ftp://ftp.handhelds.org/pub/linux/dists/compaq/ipaq/stable/install.html
>
> >From the Familiar 0.5.1 installation page.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
> Thanks for any help,
> -M@
>
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