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From: Zoran Kolic on 1 Aug 2010 00:40
> Did they provide any instructions on how to proceed with the upgrade?

Kobo hides SD card upgrade, just as snake hides it's legs.

> As root, "fdisk -l /dev/sdx" ("sdx" ??? adjust it to point the SD device)
> and check what it says.

Since the card is new, it is labeled as fat. No surprise here.
Taking it out of plastic cover, I mkfs.ext3 it. No more, no less.

> "fdisk" is for creating partitions and I suppose there must be already
> one created for the SD card, if not, you had experiencing problems for
> mounting (and accesisng) to its contents which doesn't seem to be the
> case.

Seems to be pretty happy card so far. You wonder why I have
no more data on the subject. My reader is on the way, I have
no hands on it yet. The firmware on it is old and manufacturer
has better one, version 1.4. I will reflash as soon as I can.

> Yes, but I was referring when you click any button/option to proceed with
> the "upgrade". Did you get any error? What steps did you follow (you
> inserted the SD card with the required files on it, and then... what
> happened)?

Sd card should be inserted first. Middle button on the pad
has to be pressed and the reader powered up. It takes some
time, without human interference. Nothing more. Upgrade via
usb adapter often fails, but I cannot say what errors are.
SD card upgrade never failed, or it was not reported back.
The very reason I wanna do that this way.
K, when I get the reader, will try to use card I made. If it
has something to complain, gonna make the same card with
fdisk first.
Thanx all.

Zoran


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From: Camaleón on 1 Aug 2010 09:20
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:16:25 +0200, Zoran Kolic wrote:

>> Did they provide any instructions on how to proceed with the upgrade?
>
> Kobo hides SD card upgrade, just as snake hides it's legs.

Ouch!

I hate those companies being fuzzy on what (and how) can you do with
their products. If it can be done, just explain "how" and keep your
customers happy :-). If you don't allow apply something, tell your
customers about your policy are they will go away and buy another product
>:-). But being "terse" and "ambiguous" keep users in a kind of limbo
which is worse :-(.

>> As root, "fdisk -l /dev/sdx" ("sdx" ??? adjust it to point the SD
>> device) and check what it says.
>
> Since the card is new, it is labeled as fat. No surprise here. Taking it
> out of plastic cover, I mkfs.ext3 it. No more, no less.

"fdisk -l" just tell more information about the partition table of the
device. In the event there is none, you will get some warning.

>> "fdisk" is for creating partitions and I suppose there must be already
>> one created for the SD card, if not, you had experiencing problems for
>> mounting (and accesisng) to its contents which doesn't seem to be the
>> case.
>
> Seems to be pretty happy card so far. You wonder why I have no more data
> on the subject. My reader is on the way, I have no hands on it yet. The
> firmware on it is old and manufacturer has better one, version 1.4. I
> will reflash as soon as I can.

Ah, okay then. I thought you already were performing the firmware upgrade
and failed at some point. In that case, I don't think you're going to
have any problem with the above steps but report back if something goes
wrong.

>> Yes, but I was referring when you click any button/option to proceed
>> with the "upgrade". Did you get any error? What steps did you follow
>> (you inserted the SD card with the required files on it, and then...
>> what happened)?
>
> Sd card should be inserted first. Middle button on the pad has to be
> pressed and the reader powered up. It takes some time, without human
> interference. Nothing more. Upgrade via usb adapter often fails, but I
> cannot say what errors are. SD card upgrade never failed, or it was not
> reported back. The very reason I wanna do that this way. K, when I get
> the reader, will try to use card I made. If it has something to
> complain, gonna make the same card with fdisk first.
> Thanx all.

It looks quite easy. Just tell us how it goes :-)

Greetings,

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Camaleón


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