No boot, no hope
If you give a Debian user a terminal and an apt-get command .. he makes a dist-upgrade. It’s stronger than any other earth force. I’m a debian user .. and my Nokia 800 has a osso term .. and I made a dist-upgrade and reboot the device .. Bad idea, really bad idea, in fact. The loading progress bar stops at the half and the n800 restarts. No console, no way to boot safely.
3 days to crach the device. Nice score. After the WRT300N failed upgrade, the list grows fastly …
Hopefully, the Maemo wiki saves my n800 life. Flashing a nokia image is really easy. The old linux Dell laptop (that I was using for the operation) had a small USB problem. So I used the official Windows Upgrade Wizard on a newer laptop. Something like 20 minutes to download the image and upgrade the device.
Now I know why a backup/restore application is provided by default … It’s easy to crach the boot, easy to flash a fresh image .. so easy to lost all your settings and documents …
May 6th, 2007 at 10:47 am
[...] Daniel MartÃn Yerga announces Maemo WordPy 0.3 … and no way to install python-2.5-runtime on my Nokia 800 Since my .. forced upgrade .. to the last image (3.2007.10-7), I experienced few troubles with some packages. Python 2.5 runtime fails with dependencies on libglade2.0, libsdl-ttf and libgdm3 .. No python, no MaemoWordPy .. sadness .. [...]