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I woud go for a description of the pitfalls in both choices, let the user shoot themselves in their own choice of foot (left or right). Much better than making the choice for the end-user without mention that alternatives exist. |
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05-29-2012, 08:12 AM | #33 | |
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If you try to repair a mounted filesystem, you *should* get a severe warning that you will probably corrupt it if you choose to continue. I prefer checking the image file instead of the filesystem, just so that there is no chance of corruption of a partition. EDIT: I am not making any choice for the end user. I am just showing a way that worked for me. If people want to do other stuff (including potentially dangerous stuff), that is their choice to make, not mine or yours. Suggesting untested alternatives only adds to the confusion. I want to keep things simple. I try to provide solutions that I have tested on DX/DXG/K3/K4/K5. Suggesting things that only work on specific firmware versions when a simple "universal" solution exists only adds to the confusion. Suggesting things that have not even been tested on a kindle adds to the confusion. The Signal-to-Noise-Ratio is low enough already. Let's not make it worse. Please... Last edited by geekmaster; 05-29-2012 at 09:40 AM. |
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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kerne...aa88f8490f2626 Which is approximately v2.6.22 Prior to that, there was a maximum limit set at compile time. Builders choice 1 .. 256, but often only 8. |
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05-29-2012, 09:11 AM | #35 |
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It seems I can't download mmcblk0p1-kt-5.0.0.img!
It keeps stopping at 216MB (three times...)! Kindle god hates me! |
05-29-2012, 09:17 AM | #36 | |
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And even it you wanted to use more loop devices, you would have to at least create the devices. The kindles do not have many loop devices pre-defined. Just adding a bunch more loop devices seems silly, when you could just add "-d" to the umount to free the loop device when you are done using it, instead of making it a zombie device so you keep needing to use a new one. EDIT: We need to SIMPLIFY things. Suggesting untested alternative methods to replace known working methods makes it more complicated, especially when those alternatives have side-effects and complications. Last edited by geekmaster; 05-29-2012 at 09:43 AM. |
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05-29-2012, 09:25 AM | #37 |
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Did you use a download manager?
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05-29-2012, 09:26 AM | #38 |
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No! I tried (Jdownloader) but it says link if offline (i.e. it doesn't like it!!).
Therefore I'm directly downloading it (for the fourth time right now)... |
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Try downloading the 5.0.1 compressed image from the same gitbrew forensics folder. It is a LOT smaller. The "matching" kernel for firmware versions 5.0.0 through 5.0.3 was the 5.0.0 kernel. The kernel did not get updated until 5.0.4.
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Is this Firefox? Do you have the DownThemAll plug-in installed? If yes - don't use it. Otherwise - a bit more detail of what you are using (software and OS) might help us, help you. |
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Unless somebody puts up a compressed p1, you will have to figure out how to download the same image you did, but successfully. If you find a compressed image, you have to extract the image before flashing it. You COULD try using wget to download the file. Either from linux, or get a mingw/msys wget for windows, or use a cygwin shell wget. Last edited by geekmaster; 05-29-2012 at 09:55 AM. |
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