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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: SirLD on April 06, 2006, 05:56:21 pm

Title: Flash Simpad Without Serload
Post by: SirLD on April 06, 2006, 05:56:21 pm

hello,

does anybody know if i can flash a SIMpad with opie installed without serload via serial cable? i mean is there a way to download the image onto the SIMpad and then install it from within linux?

Title: Flash Simpad Without Serload
Post by: Mickeyl on April 06, 2006, 06:27:48 pm

No, that's not possible.

In theory you could write a program that loads itself in ramdisk, unmount all the mtdblocks, erase the flash and reprogram it from some source...

Title: Flash Simpad Without Serload
Post by: tml on April 07, 2006, 12:44:54 am

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does anybody know if i can flash a SIMpad with opie installed without serload via serial cable? i mean is there a way to download the image onto the SIMpad and then install it from within linux?

Depending on the bootloader, you could flash from a cf card though.