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E200R Automatic Bootloader and Rockbox Installer
e280ruser:
I've been doing a lot of thinking and googling, and I've begun to work on making a really small live linux "distro", designed to be an installer for the e280r. I've started to modify/slim down Damn Small Linux. It is a 50MB distrubution, which can run on just about anything. I figure, I can slim that down to around 25MB (without a GUI), or somewhere in that ballpark.
People would download the iso file, burn it to a cd, reboot, and follow the instructions. It may be a bit different than other methods of installing (GUI windows installer), but it could get the job done very well, and I believe I can make it very easy, with some suggestions.
Edit Would it be possible to run this live cd with all the functionality in QEMU? I know that it won't work in vmware, because the usb device is 'handed' to the virtual machine by windows, but am unable to find this information on QEMU. If anyone knows this could save me a lot of time. Thanks. /Edit
Please give me some ideas as to what would be easy for most people to install Rockbox with. I prefer a CLI, and consider a GUI hard and inefficient. Should I go with a window manager, or CLI with prompts (Kind of like my Bash script).
I'll be posting back with updates...
Bagder:
I think CLI only is fine, as it will keep the file size down by quite a bit.
But then of course I'm not the typical user of such an installer...
Sup3rkirby:
Well, I will first promise you nothing.
Now, just for the sake of getting the proper information, could someone tell me some details on the problems with the windows bootloader.
Can anyone tell me how the bootloader looks for the device, and how it finds the standard sansa, and why it does not detect the rhapsody version. Also, linux works with usb differently(allowing it to detect the partition on the rhapsody players), so I would like to know the basics of what is really different.
I am still an amature programmer, but I am a windows programmer that is willing to look into this situation and give any help I can. So I am just trying to get the details so I know what I'm trying to fix(specifically).
Llorean:
First off, there is no "windows bootloader." The bootloader is what is installed on the player, not the program that installs it, nor the tool we use to access the player.
Secondly, we don't access a hidden partition on the e200R. Unlike the e200, we don't see a hidden partition available at all from the computer's side. What we do is start the player in Manufacturer mode, which allows us to talk with it through the USB port and do certain things. In this case we replace the ROM with our own ROM, something we don't need to do on the normal e200 players ever.
In windows we haven't been able to talk properly to the player in this special mode because of the USB differences.
squeeeezy:
so does this mean i cant load rockbox on my sansa cuz im using windows
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