[iPAQ] re: rewince-z.sh BUG!

From: David A. Panariti <davep.a.t.who.net>
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 19:46:40 EDT

Thanks.
I'll put in a "look in common places for zmodem then ask the user"
function to prevent this happening again.

davep

James> I think this is the rigth address for this kinda thing. ?

James> Last night I needed to use the rewince-z.sh inorder to remotly
James> over zmodem resotre windows. (after eventually working out how
James> to use zmodem and calming down =P ) however the script chucked
James> up some errors, unfortunatly I didnt think at the time to note
James> them, I was more interested in not having a dead iPAQ, but the
James> error happend after killing PID's and being told, yes continue
James> to download. Along the lines of
James> /mnt/ramfs/reflash-work/rzcat-pipe did not exist to be run.

James> The problem I found out was that the script had created the
James> link /mnt/ramfs/reflash-work/rzcat-pipe to /bin/rz, however
James> Familiar 0.4 keeps rz in /usr/bin/rz and seeing as that was in
James> the ROM, or just read only I couldent cp the file, in the end I
James> just removed the rzcat-pipe link and relinked it to the right
James> path and re-ran the script. it worked, much to my releif :)

James> If the /dir is wrong it is only because I am trying to recall
James> 6am thismorning, but I think it's right..

James> Hope this helped more than it was overly long!

James> James.
Received on Tue Jun 12 16:43:22 2001

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