Thread: N800 + OS2008 + MMC boot (this worked for me)
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fanoush is offline fanoush
2008-01-29 , 09:03
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#5
Originally Posted by coffeedrinker View Post
The wiki had something about using gnu tar rather than the built in one. Is this no longer necessary?
You can run the tar cloning phase without 'v' in tar arguments (i.e. tar cf - ... | tar xf - ...). This does not print all file names so you see only errors and warnings. If you don't see any errors about filename too large or exceeding xx (=100?) characters then it may be fine. Warnings about old timestamps are harmless.

Maybe busybox tar in OS2008 finally supports long file names. Would be nice if someone who used default (=busybox) tar for cloning would confirm there are really no errors and the clone is complete.
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Last edited by fanoush; 2008-01-29 at 09:11.