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Renate · 08-03-2024, 08:11 AM

I've been using my autoupdate in recovery to flash update.zip from a USB flash drive.
It works just fine and I've even flashed my poor Poke5 to Chinese and back again.
I can be so brave because I have a full raw backup, which I have EDL'ed in a few times.

But incremental updates can be problematical.
They need a lot of elbow room to rearrange the super partition.
Probably more space than you have RAM unless you have something with 4 GB or more.

Well, I'm working on this:

Code:

01/01/1980  00:00       670,998,528 product_a-cow-img.img.0000
01/01/1980  00:00     1,318,719,488 system_a-cow-img.img.0000
01/01/1980  00:00       298,991,616 system_ext_a-cow-img.img.0000
01/01/1980  00:00       451,747,840 vendor_a-cow-img.img.0000

As you can see, you need about 2.75 GB elbow room.
I could probably get this to work if I formatted a flash drive with ext2.

08-03-2024, 08:11 AM	#5
Renate Onyx-maniac Posts: 3,960 Karma: 17500001 Join Date: Feb 2012 Device: Nook NST, Glow2, 3, 4, '21, Kobo Aura2, Poke3, Poke5, Go6	I've been using my autoupdate in recovery to flash update.zip from a USB flash drive. It works just fine and I've even flashed my poor Poke5 to Chinese and back again. I can be so brave because I have a full raw backup, which I have EDL'ed in a few times. But incremental updates can be problematical. They need a lot of elbow room to rearrange the super partition. Probably more space than you have RAM unless you have something with 4 GB or more. Well, I'm working on this: Code: 01/01/1980 00:00 670,998,528 product_a-cow-img.img.0000 01/01/1980 00:00 1,318,719,488 system_a-cow-img.img.0000 01/01/1980 00:00 298,991,616 system_ext_a-cow-img.img.0000 01/01/1980 00:00 451,747,840 vendor_a-cow-img.img.0000 As you can see, you need about 2.75 GB elbow room. I could probably get this to work if I formatted a flash drive with ext2.