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igorsk · 08-30-2007, 10:44 PM

It's possible to mount the card with mtools but that screws up Reader's card insertion detector and you have to reboot it. A better solution is to mcopy your binary to /tmp and run from there (it's a 4MB ramdisk). See the .sh scripts in Universal Flasher for details.

08-30-2007, 10:44 PM	#2
igorsk Wizard Posts: 3,442 Karma: 300001 Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Belgium Device: PRS-500/505/700, Kindle, Cybook Gen3, Words Gear	It's possible to mount the card with mtools but that screws up Reader's card insertion detector and you have to reboot it. A better solution is to mcopy your binary to /tmp and run from there (it's a 4MB ramdisk). See the .sh scripts in Universal Flasher for details.