Re: Re: Restoring pocketpc?

Michal Panczyk wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 11:45 PM, Harmon Seaver <hseaver_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Michal Panczyk wrote:
>> > Harmon....
>> > I can not get any more detailed instructions than :
>> > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ports.h2200/2824
>>
>> Thanks, I've already found that one. Unfortunately it requires a
>> computer with windoze installed to do it that way. Which I don't have
>> access to very readily. And it also requires that LAB be removed first,
>> and the original bootloader reinstalled.
>
> What's wrong in removing LAB and reinstalling windoze bootloder

   Yes, that's what I want to do -- how do you do it?

? Do
> you want to get windoze back and still have LAB ?

   No, and from what I've read in the archives, that's impossible.

> Go to
> friend/family/library and do the operation on windoze ....
>
   Well, that's the problem -- I don't really know anybody nearby that
has windoze, or that I know well enough to ask. Just a lot of mac and
linux users. And the library doesn't let you download anything or put in
a CD or floppy.
   Maybe I'll try it with wine. But it doesn't make a lot of sense that
you can remove wince and the wince bootloader and install LAB and
familiar on the ipaq and not the reverse -- all done from a linux serial
console.

> You can play with d2s commands (windoze installed on the host again ?

   Why would you need windoze for the d2s commands? I did the back up
from minicom.

> ) - to restore the wince images that you saved during the LAB install
> procedure (you followed the procedure and made backup, did't you?)

    Yes, of course -- that's what I was trying to restore, and for some
reason it it too big. Apparantly the instructions on the install web
page are erroneous, if it gives you a backup image that is too big to
restore.

>> >
>> > Just follow it and you will get the wince on your h2200 back.
>> > Next time use "search" option - most of the question you asked already
>> > got the answers on that list.
>> >
>> >
>> Yeah, I already did a lot of searching on the list. So far, all I've
>> found is about restoring on a h36*, h39*, or h55* ipaq.
>
> h2200 is totally different. hx4700 is a kind of similar but i would
> stick to h2200 procedures.
>>
>>
>> >> From: Harmon Seaver <hseaver_at_gmail.com>
>> >> Subject: [H2200-port] Restoring pocketpc?
>> >> To: h2200-port_at_handhelds.org, angstrom-distro-users_at_linuxtogo.org,
>> >> familiar <familiar_at_handhelds.org>
>> >> Message-ID: <47CD6F80.7000607_at_gmail.com>
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>> >> I just tried to reflash my h2200 to the pocketpc, but this fails
>> >> saying the file is too big.
>> >>
>> >> boot> copy fs:/mnt/pocketpc.rescue nand:jffs2:3
>> >> Copying [fs:/mnt/pocketpc.rescue] to [nand:jffs2:3] ...
>> >> Input file does not fit into device
>> >> Error occured while putting file.
>> >>
>> >> When backing up the pocketpc, I did exactly as the instruction page
>> >> said, actually cutting and pasting the commands. And, of course, I
>> >> erased the flash before trying to restore the pocketpc.rescue
>> >>
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>> >> Harmon Seaver
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