[BobaHoTep]

Thanks Cdn, if you still have the patience I'm still having problems. This is driving me nuts, I do stuff harder than this everyday, but I'm still unable to get your instructions to work.

The directory structure I'm working with is
KoboRoot/etc

And when I compress before copying back to /Volumes/KOBOeReader/.kobo the command I use is

tar czf KoboRoot.tgz ./KoboRoot

Here's the content of each of my files

inittab:
::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS
::respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttymxc0 115200 vt100
::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/reboot
::shutdown:/bin/umount -a -r
::restart:/sbin/init
::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS2
::respawn:/usr/sbin/inetd -f /etc/inetd.conf

inetd.conf
23 stream tcp nowait root /bin/busybox telnetd -i
21 stream tcp nowait root /bin/busybox ftpd -w -S /

rcS2 <yes I know your instructions said to put this in rcS, but since I can't even get ftp to work I assume I'm doing something else wrong first>
#!/bin/sh
mkdir -p /dev/pts
mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts

rcS

#!/bin/sh

mount -o remount,noatime,nodiratime /dev/mmcblk0p1 /

PLATFORM=freescale
if [ `dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512 skip=1024 count=1 | grep -c "HW CONFIG"` == 1 ]; then
PLATFORM=ntx508
fi

if [ $PLATFORM == freescale ]; then
if [ ! -s /lib/firmware/imx/epdc_E60_V220.fw ]; then
mkdir -p /lib/firmware/imx
dd if=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=512K skip=10 count=1 | zcat > /lib/firmware/imx/epdc_E60_V220.fw
sync
fi
fi

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/lib:
runlevel=S
prevlevel=N
umask 022
export PATH runlevel prevlevel

for i in /proc /dev /root /tmp /sys /mnt/sd /mnt/onboard /mnt/user /var/lib /var/log /var/run /lib/modules/`uname -r`; do
[ ! -d $i ] && mkdir -p $i
done;

/bin/mount -t proc none /proc
/bin/mount -t tmpfs none -o size=10240k /tmp
/bin/mount -t tmpfs none /dev
/bin/mount -t tmpfs none -o size=16k /var/log
/bin/mount -t tmpfs none -o size=128k /var/run
/bin/mount -t sysfs none -o size=500k /sys

mkfifo /tmp/nickel-hardware-status
rm -rf /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

echo -e '\000\000\000\000' > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
/sbin/udevd -d
/sbin/udevadm control --env=STARTUP=1
/sbin/udevadm trigger
/sbin/udevadm settle --timeout=2
/sbin/udevadm control --env=STARTUP=

( usleep 400000; /etc/init.d/on-animator.sh ) &

dosfsck -a -w /dev/mmcblk0p3
mount -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8 /dev/mmcblk0p3 /mnt/onboard
rm -rf /mnt/onboard/fsck*
rm -rf /mnt/onboard/FSCK*

echo -n 8192 > /proc/sys/vm/min_free_kbytes

if [ ! -e /mnt/onboard/.kobo ]; then
mkdir -p /mnt/onboard/.kobo
tar zxf /usr/local/Kobo/db.tgz -C /mnt/onboard
sync
echo "Decompressed database"
fi

if [ -e /mnt/onboard/.kobo/Kobo.tgz ]; then
zcat /mnt/onboard/.kobo/Kobo.tgz > /dev/null && tar zxf /mnt/onboard/.kobo/Kobo.tgz -C /usr/local/Kobo/
rm /mnt/onboard/.kobo/Kobo.tgz
echo "Done upgrading..."
fi

if [ -e /mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboRoot.tgz ]; then
killall on-animator.sh
zcat /etc/images/ghostbuster.raw.gz | /usr/local/Kobo/pickel showpic
/etc/init.d/update-animator.sh &
zcat /mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboRoot.tgz > /dev/null && tar zxf /mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboRoot.tgz -C /
if [ -e /mnt/onboard/.kobo/upgrade ]; then
/etc/init.d/upgrade-wifi.sh
rm -rf /mnt/onboard/.kobo/upgrade
fi
rm /mnt/onboard/.kobo/KoboRoot.tgz
killall update-animator.sh
echo "Done upgrading..."
zcat /etc/images/ghostbuster.raw.gz | /usr/local/Kobo/pickel showpic
zcat /etc/images/reboot.raw.gz | /usr/local/Kobo/pickel showpic
sync
reboot
fi

(
/usr/local/Kobo/pickel disable.rtc.alarm

if [ ! -e /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf ]; then
cp /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.template /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf
fi

echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/mxc_dvfs_core.0/enable

/sbin/hwclock -s -u
) &

INTERFACE=wlan0
WIFI_MODULE=ar6000
if [ $PLATFORM == ntx508 ]; then
INTERFACE=eth0
WIFI_MODULE=dhd
fi

export INTERFACE
export WIFI_MODULE

export QWS_MOUSE_PROTO="tslib_nocal:/dev/input/event1"
export QWS_KEYBOARD=imx508kbd:/dev/input/event0
export QWS_DISPLAY=Transformed:imx508:Rot90
export NICKEL_HOME=/mnt/onboard/.kobo
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/Kobo
export WIFI_MODULE_PATH=/drivers/$PLATFORM/wifi/$WIFI_MODULE.ko
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export UBOOT_MMC=/etc/u-boot/$PLATFORM/u-boot.mmc
export UBOOT_RECOVERY=/etc/u-boot/$PLATFORM/u-boot.recovery

/usr/local/Kobo/nickel -qws &

(
if [ -e /dev/mmcblk1p1 ]; then
ACTION=add DEVNAME=/dev/mmcblk1p1 /usr/local/Kobo/udev/sd
fi
) &