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Old 05-28-2008, 03:09 AM   #2
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: K.S.A
Device: N95 , Iliad (Not by Homer)
just to confirm , it works perfectly on iliad i formated my USB stick to ext2 through this utility as i did not had access to linux , any how follow are the areas to be carefully checked before formating. ( i am writing specificly for USB but i guess same will be applied for oher storage. )

- You should have terminal porting available on iliad.
- first run only mount command wich will help you identify the real device name of the sd card / cf card / or USB device.
- after noting the device name unmount this device as till it is not unmounted it will not be formated
- now run the commands by replacing the device name exactly the way written by amir in above post.
- after that use the ext2 driver for windows to access this usb in windows as by default windows will not be able to read/write usb with ext2 format.
- now copy the wikipedia etc. or any other program you want to run from this storage.
- now when you will connect it back to iliad that time surprisingly iliad does not detect it automatically ( does not mount actually automatically ). I handle this problem by writing a one line "mount" script to mount it manually. (you might consider changing /etc/fstab things for automation business ).
- after this the last problem is by since you copied it from windows and now this is ext2 so your program might not work at first as there is no execute permissions on the binaries so settle that through terminal program again by running "chmod" commands.
- and finally your progarams ( in my case wikipedia full english edition ) start working.
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