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Old 11-02-2019, 09:04 AM   #5
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Originally Posted by pavel-s View Post
That's great, thanks knc1! Could you please give links or describe a bit the process of "net boot"? Using serial port connection is also looks kind of magic for me.
Our "serial port for dummies" (or words like that) is quite complete.
Other than specifics for the "Androidized" device/firmware combinations (such as the PW4 IIRC).

A couple of years old, without specific details for a Kindle client or a non-Debian server....
The general process reads like:
https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall

Hey, You have to make this stuff up as you go along, you can't expect Amazon/Lab126 to be writing e-book tutorials.

On the subject of PW4 firmware releases (not including the initial, first shipped, release):
Code:
mszick@HP8300:/usr/local/PW4$ wget https://s3.amazonaws.com/firmwaredownloads/update_kindle_all_new_paperwhite_v2_(desired version string here).bin

- - - -

mszick@HP8300:/usr/local/PW4$ ls -l
total 1522788
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mszick mszick 264050447 Nov  1  2018 update_kindle_all_new_paperwhite_v2_5.10.1.2.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mszick mszick 264140829 Dec  7  2018 update_kindle_all_new_paperwhite_v2_5.10.2.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mszick mszick 256324243 Mar 20  2019 update_kindle_all_new_paperwhite_v2_5.11.1.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mszick mszick 257231761 May 29 04:43 update_kindle_all_new_paperwhite_v2_5.11.2.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mszick mszick 258629777 Jul  5 10:52 update_kindle_all_new_paperwhite_v2_5.12.1.bin
-rw-rw-r-- 1 mszick mszick 258942008 Oct  1 05:08 update_kindle_all_new_paperwhite_v2_5.12.2.bin
mszick@HP8300:/usr/local/PW4$
That is a lot of updates for a one year old machine.
And a once every two months update schedule is a difficult thing to keep up, at least without making even one mistake that we could use.

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