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Title: Formatting CF card in the SL-5600
Post by: yodabob on March 17, 2004, 08:20:29 pm

I\'m having difficulty flashing to the pre-emptive patch kernel.  I\'ve put updater.sh and zImage.bin in the root of the CF.  I\'ve tried formatting the CF under XP-PRO as both FAT and FAT32, but neither seems to work.  Can anybody give me directions for formatting this card internally in the Z ?  I\'m not a Linux guru, but I can obey instructions pretty well !

Thanks !

Title: Formatting CF card in the SL-5600
Post by: tumnus on March 18, 2004, 03:30:40 am

You need to format your CF card as FAT16 (Also referred to as DOS FAT and is just \'FAT\' in the Windows formatter).

Install fdisk from here: https://www.oesf.org/downl...11g-4_2_arm.ipk (http://www.elsix.org/downloads/docs/feed/fdisk_2.11g-4_2_arm.ipk)

Follow the instructions from here: http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php...0And%20CF%20FAQ (http://www.zaurususergroup.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpWiki&file=index&pagename=SD%20And%20CF%20FAQ)

Title: Formatting CF card in the SL-5600
Post by: catachresis on March 18, 2004, 07:28:03 am

Thanks Mr. Tumnus for the links.