Poky Linux 3.0 is the latest release of yet another mobile linux flavour. More information and screenshots can be found at its website.
Fortunately for Nokia Internet Tablet owners this has an experimental N800 build, here is a guide about flashing it with Poky. For those that are worried about bricking their device: fear not as I was assured by one of the Poky team members that your device will not be bricked since you’re just changing the kernel and the rootfs.
To go back to IT2007 follow the instructions here, here, here or here.
Flashing N800 with Poky (Mac OS X PPC or Linux)
- PC: Download the Linux/Mac flasher (MacOS X PPC: flasher-2.0.macosx) Unlike me, DO NOT rename the flasher tools.
- PC: From the Poky website download some files into the same directory as the flasher tool. (preferably your home directory. In Mac OS X it is the directory named after your user name. In Linux it should be /home/user_name)
- N800: Fully charged and switched off . Un-connected to your computer in any way.
- PC:Linux – Execute the following command:
chmod +x flasher-3.0
- PC:Mac OS X PPC- Execute the following command:
chmod +x flasher-2.0.macosx
- PC:Linux – Execute as root using the following command. Enter the Admin/root password when prompted:
sudo ./flasher-3.0 -k zImage-2.6.18-osso40-blinky-3.0-nokia800.bin -r poky-image-sdk-nokia800-blinky-3.0.rootfs.jffs2 -f
- PC:MacOSX PPC – Execute as root using the following command. Enter the Admin/root password when prompted:
sudo ./flasher-2.0.macosx -k zImage-2.6.18-osso40-blinky-3.0-nokia800.bin -r poky-image-sdk-nokia800-blinky-3.0.rootfs.jffs2 -f
- PC: Something like”Suitable USB device not found, waiting” is displayed on the console
- N800: Now Connect your N800 to your PC through the USB cable and then switch it on by pressing on the power button WHILE holding the Home-button
- PC: Watch the messages as the image loads to the N800 after which it reboots automatically — you’re done now!
How does it compare with IT OS 2007?
Maybe this post will help you. That’s all of the information that I have at the moment.
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