10-12-2018, 03:58 PM | #1 |
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KSM GUIDE CONFUSION
Hello Everyone,
I‘m having a little trouble following the Kobo Start Menu (& koreader) install guide. I'm trying to follow a guide where the years of accumulated amendments and assorted postscripts have largely discombobulated its step-by-step clarity. With a confusion that does nothing to becalm the nerves of this very cautious noob. Some bits really don’t make much sense to me, and I find some steps a little too vague and open to potentially disastrous misinterpretation. Which is why I was hoping that someone could help me clear up a few points. Being a big fraidy-cat I’ve decided not to launch straight in to installing Koreader on my Kodo Aura One. I’ve instead spent £10 on a used Kobo Mini which I’ll use for a test run. First thing I did was reset and then update the Kobo Mini. The Mini is now running the 3.4.1 firmware. 1. I then connected it to my Ubuntu PC so I could walk-through the process. However, I found myself stumped when looking for the .adds folder – the KSM 09 destination for Koreader. A ctrl + h revealed the .kobo, .kobo-images, .adobe-digital-editions hidden folders, but .adds is nowhere to be seen. Should I create the .adds folder myself or does it appear after after the KoboRoot.tgz is added to .kobo? 2. The guide’s recommendations begin with a suggestion to prepare your PC for usbnet. The next two recommendations suggest disabling wifi with changes to a .msh file. Does the first point imply that this change will be made via the webinterface, or is it via the e-reader screen? Or do I have to dig around for config files and set at them with my text editor. Sorry if this a stupid question but I’ve never used KSM or Koreader before. And I've also never used usbnet with linux: another hurdle I'm hoping to avoid. Any help and guidance much appreciated. Thomas |
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If you don't want to use usbnet, this is fine too. It is just one more means to interact with the device. Last edited by tshering; 10-12-2018 at 05:01 PM. |
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10-13-2018, 05:14 AM | #3 |
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Thank you. I'm about 57% less nervous now.
Sorry if I was a bit harsh about the guide. I'm grateful that it exists at all. Though if you are thinking about a tidy up, it could be useful for first timers like me to have something with the 1,2,3,4 simplicity of Ken Maltby's (unfortunately outdated) 2014 tutorial. |
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