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eschwartz · 07-27-2016, 02:05 PM

Then you use resources/devices/k3/main_partition.sfs and instead of unlzma/untarring an ext3 partition, you will extract it from a squashfs.

Same difference -- it's way too big for k3flasher/fastboot/whatever to transfer over a USB Downloader connection, you will need to save it to the userstore and have the Kindle itself write it via `dd`.

It doesn't matter what tool you use to connect to the Kindle, k3flasher, mfgtool, fastboot, it's all the same -- the goal is always to get a working diags partition with USBNetwork installed, by which to ssh into the Kindle and write the main partition.

You are overthinking this.

07-27-2016, 02:05 PM	#975
eschwartz Ex-Helpdesk Junkie Posts: 19,421 Karma: 85400180 Join Date: Nov 2012 Location: The Beaten Path, USA, Roundworld, This Side of Infinity Device: Kindle Touch fw5.3.7 (Wifi only)	Then you use resources/devices/k3/main_partition.sfs and instead of unlzma/untarring an ext3 partition, you will extract it from a squashfs. Same difference -- it's way too big for k3flasher/fastboot/whatever to transfer over a USB Downloader connection, you will need to save it to the userstore and have the Kindle itself write it via `dd`. It doesn't matter what tool you use to connect to the Kindle, k3flasher, mfgtool, fastboot, it's all the same -- the goal is always to get a working diags partition with USBNetwork installed, by which to ssh into the Kindle and write the main partition. You are overthinking this. Last edited by eschwartz; 07-27-2016 at 02:08 PM.