Coming Back To Cacko From Oz/opie Options

[Matthewmongan]

alright, i put OZ on my z and now I'm stuck with it. i want cacko back but i don't know how to restore the hd partition table in OZ. i have downloaded the trisoft hd images but I'm still in the dark, i try to re-flash cacko but when the sd/cf card menu is supposed to load after the Japanese menu, oz boots.

[adf]

alright, i put OZ on my z and now I'm stuck with it. i want cacko back but i don't know how to restore the hd partition table in OZ. i have downloaded the trisoft hd images but I'm still in the dark, i try to re-flash cacko but when the sd/cf card menu is supposed to load after the Japanese menu, oz boots.

Trisoft has pretty good instructions on his site, and 2 methods, i think

Follow the directions there?--and don't forget to re-image your HD

I have done exactly this using exactly those images (think I had to resort to the emergency method, though).

You will have (probably) to do a nand restore from the trisoft image, and an hd restore--then flash

[Matthewmongan]

alright, i put OZ on my z and now I'm stuck with it. i want cacko back but i don't know how to restore the hd partition table in OZ. i have downloaded the trisoft hd images but I'm still in the dark, i try to re-flash cacko but when the sd/cf card menu is supposed to load after the Japanese menu, oz boots.

Trisoft has pretty good instructions on his site, and 2 methods, i think

Follow the directions there?--and don't forget to re-image your HD

I have done exactly this using exactly those images (think I had to resort to the emergency method, though).

You will have (probably) to do a nand restore from the trisoft image, and an hd restore--then flash

when i do a nand restore in the D+M menu i get a format error. what am i doing wrong?

im sorry for being a noob. but i need a serious step by step guide to get out of this muck.

[speculatrix]

format error? this is a well-known problem (seach forum for flash memory partition)... briefly
1) check the card has a partition
2) check its fat16 formatted - a fresh format is a good idea to prevent fragmentation
3) check the md5 of the files (for windows, get this program http://www.whitsoftdev.com/md5/)

[Matthewmongan]

format error?  this is a well-known problem (seach forum for flash memory partition)... briefly
1) check the card has a partition
2) check its fat16 formatted - a fresh format is a good idea to prevent fragmentation
3) check the md5 of the files (for windows, get this program http://www.whitsoftdev.com/md5/)

alright, thank you. i have cacko flashed on my system. all i have to do now is restore the hdd partitions. to my understanding the pdaxromii3 updater.sh has a nice feature that restores the hd partitions. im going to give that a try. im not to good with fdisk.

[Matthewmongan]

ok, so i repartitioned the drive with the updater.sh utility but im still getting

"Error!! HDD is not initialized!"

i think this has something to do with the files from trisoft that i am supposed to place in the individual partitions. the only problem is that i dont know how to do that.

[Matthewmongan]

ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write

cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1

but that doesn't work.

[adf]

If I recall correctly, you have to put the disk image files on cf and use the D+M menu--find a hrd disk restore option in there somewhere and restore from cf.

Sorry not to be more specific--haven't done that in nearly a year

[Meanie]

ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write

cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1

but that doesn't work.

your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...

[Matthewmongan]

ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write

cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1

but that doesn't work.

your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...

alright, then i have a 750$ brick

[adf]

ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write

cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1

but that doesn't work.

your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...

alright, then i have a 750$ brick

probably not. but you likely do have a headache.

can you D+M?

[stormer]

have you tried /dev/mmcda rather than /dev/sdc ?

I have previously moved from OE back to cacko and don't remember ever using
/dev/sdc for my SD cards (1G Danelec and 1G kingston)

[speculatrix]

your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...

alright, then i have a 750$ brick

don't panic, it's pretty easy to restore your hard drive partitions... check out meanie's guide to it, and the data for the drive is on Trisoft's support website... just repartition /dev/hda as per the guide, making sure to set up each partition as the right type, format them, then copy on the data.

[Matthewmongan]

ok, im trying to cp the hdd1sys and hdd2sys files in their respected partitions but i havent had any luck. im using a sd card, i am assuming the address of the card is /dev/sdc so in command i should be able to write

cp dev/sdc/hdd1sys dev/hda1

but that doesn't work.

your mounted SD card would be /mnt/card and the respective hdd partitions, /hdd1 and /hdd2
you don't copy things to raw partitions...

alright, then i have a 750$ brick

probably not. but you likely do have a headache.

can you D+M?

yes i can d+m. im not sure what to do with it tough

what i been trying to do in console is:

mount the partiton with

# mount /dev/hda1* /hdd1

and make the .sys file with

# mkdir .sys

i use

# cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdimage2.tgz* /hdd1/.sys

and

# cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdlist1.dat* /hdd1/.sys

to copy the files into the .sys file. unfortunately thats not working. so i dont know what to do at this point

[speculatrix]

what i been trying to do in console is:

mount the partiton with

# mount /dev/hda1* /hdd1

and make the .sys file with

# mkdir .sys

i use

# cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdimage2.tgz* /hdd1/.sys

and

# cp mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdlist1.dat* /hdd1/.sys

to copy the files into the .sys file. unfortunately thats not working.  so i dont know what to do at this point

you need to unpack the file rather than simply copying it in. change directory to /hdd2 (e.g.) and decompress and untar, thus

cd /hdd2
pwd
zcat /mnt/card/hdd1sys/hdimage2.tgz* | tar xf -