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Old 01-21-2017, 06:30 AM   #397
tshering
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Originally Posted by WiggyWare View Post
There's one part I'm confused by; I know your directions on the post for the KA1 say to follow the instructions on the first post for installing KSM8, and then follow the instructions on the KA1 post (which you quoted here). My question is about the step "extract KoboRoot.tgz from the uploaded archive" from the KA1 upgrade post. On that page, there isn't an archive that contains a KoboRoot.tgz, there is only the KSM08_ext_aura_one_03b.zip file. Which archive did you mean?
By archive I meant the file KSM08_ext_aura_one_03b.zip, from which you can extract KoboRoot.tgz. If you do not see KoboRoot.tgz, your extraction program might do all extraction steps automatically without you seeing the individual steps (KSM08_ext_aura_one_03b.zip KoboRoot.tgz > KoboRoot.tar > some folders with files). But then I wonder how you extracted KoboRoot.tgz from the original firmware update file; and also from the KSM 08 package.

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Originally Posted by WiggyWare View Post
Maybe a better question is this; if I take the actual 4.2.8283 firmware file from downloads.kobobooks.com, extract the KoboRoot.tgz, merge in the files from your KSM08_ext_aura_one_03b.zip, and then repack it into KoboRoot.tgz and copy it to .kobo, should that work?
No! You would have to merge of KoboRoot.tgz of KBStartMenu_08.zip, KoboRoot.tgz of KSM08_ext_aura_one_03b.zip, and KoboRoot.tgz of Kobo firmware update package ( for instance kobo-update-4.2.8283.zip), and repack it into KoboRoot.tgz. But why should you do this? Just to clarify the (fully extracted) content of KSM08_ext_aura_one_03b.zip should overwrite the corresponding files of KBStartMenu_08.zip; and the resulting files of this merging process should overwrite the corresponding files of the firmware update file.

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Originally Posted by WiggyWare View Post
EDIT: Forgot to mention - I was able to restore to the original firmware by just downloading it from download.kobobooks.com, extracting the zip file and copying the KoboRoot.tgz file to /.kobo on the ereader.
I would like to mention that this did however not remove the files of KSM that are located at the system partition.
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