Ashley, the other problem is that the C700 kernel probably needs to be patched and recompiled to work with 64Mb large jffs2 partitions. That could be easily done, the only problem is that I don't really know what exact kernel patches are applied by the pdaXrom developers to their kernels.
You are right. And it may not be as simple as the trick used with 750s (using the 760 kernel). Recompilation may be needed. The worse is I don't own a 700, so I can't play this game. Any volunteer?
As far as I understand it, both service menus and the Japanese utility are in flash. You can erase them, you can patch them, you can do whatever you want with them. But there is always a possibility to bootstrap the device, as the very basic first-stage bootloader resides in ROM and has a built-in possibility to restore the flash. There is an instruction for doing that, the link on it was posted on this board quite a while ago, but I think it's possible to find it. Or maybe someone could post it here if he has it saved.
http://pocketworkstation.org/files/recover/Of course I agree with you, ikm. Nice post , as usual
iamasmith, I wrote a simple partition restoration to the origianl root+user scheme in the installer, so you always have the choice to go back by rebooting again into the installer. So don't worry so much. Installer was written months ago, and I don't know how many people has tried it, but no complaint received, only congratulations... and fears