E200R Automatic Bootloader and Rockbox Installer

[DavidGWRawson]

Im currently working on an automatic bootloader and rockbox installer for E200R Models. It uses the same method as before, but makes it automated. Ill come back with results...

EDIT: I can't seem to get e200tool for windows to work..... it wont find the device. Libusb doesnt help.

EDIT: It's probably best to do it manually.......It isn't as hard as it sounds.

[chrisjs169]

Im currently working on an automatic bootloader and rockbox installer for E200R Models. It uses the same method as before, but makes it automated. Ill come back with results...

EDIT: I can't seem to get e200tool for windows to work..... it wont find the device. Libusb doesnt help.

EDIT: It's probably best to do it manually.......It isn't as hard as it sounds.

I already have a semi automatic script to patch the bootloader - it mostly just tells you what to do and you simply press enter a few times.  It, like e200tool, only works on Linux.  

[DavidGWRawson]

I was thinking of one for windows users without having to download linux or ubuntu

[chrisjs169]

e200tool requires libusb, which, while can be installed on Windows, nobody has had any luck on getting it working.  Good luck if you want to try.

[e280ruser]

I just wrote up a script to install rockbox automatically on the R series only.  It is experimental, however, as I don' t have a R series to test it on.  USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!  It was made from the wiki, and should work, but I am not sure if it will.  I am not responsible for stupidity (except my own).  Please only use if you know what you are actually doing and don't want to do the process by hand.  By the way, this is linux only.  
Note: Because of forum rules, I uploaded this file as a .txt file.  Just rename the file extension if/when you download it.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!



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[chrisjs169]

I just wrote up a script to install rockbox automatically on the R series only.  It is experimental, however, as I don' t have a R series to test it on.  USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!  It was made from the wiki, and should work, but I am not sure if it will.  I am not responsible for stupidity (except my own).  Please only use if you know what you are actually doing and don't want to do the process by hand.  By the way, this is linux only.  
Note: Because of forum rules, I uploaded this file as a .txt file.  Just rename the file extension if/when you download it.

USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Very nice, seems to work better than mine...more automatic.  However, there's no sleep (or similar) after some directions.  Example: "Let's determine where your sansa is located.  Plug in your sansa in regular mode.  Don't mount it just yet."  Right after bash is able to display that, it immediately runs fdisk, which wouldn't give the user enough time.


UPDATE: I don't think your script is needed now - JdGordon modified e200tool in a way to have it patch the bootloader, so now all you need to do is run "./et2 bootloader.bin" (without holding REC) and it patches it.

[e280ruser]

Yea, this is still in its alpha stages.  I think I'll be setting up a SVN sometime soon.  Just kidding.  I've been trying to learn bash, so I just threw this together.  I hoped that with the 2 flashing warning banners, that people would read every line somewhat carefully.  

[chrisjs169]

Yea, this is still in its alpha stages.  I think I'll be setting up a SVN sometime soon.  Just kidding.  I've been trying to learn bash, so I just threw this together.  I hoped that with the 2 flashing warning banners, that people would read every line somewhat carefully.  

See my edit 5 seconds before your post

[e280ruser]

Cool beans.

[DavidGWRawson]

I'm saying that it needs to work on windows to make it 90% easier, without the hassle of using linux. For those windows users. (by the way, ubuntu(a linux based OS) is better than windows, in its own way).

[chrisjs169]

Well, the problem isn't Rockbox, it's getting libusb to work on Windows.

[John Brown]

Yeah if only there was one way of getting it to work on windows....

[Bagder]

If only there was a Windows programmer interested to get it working...

[e280ruser]

If only there was a Windows programmer interested to get it working...

Wait...there are windows programmers.  I think I'm going to vomit.  That's like a buddhist nazi, it just doesn't make sense.

[scorche]

The key word there was interested.