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by dkpilot
12 Dec 2018, 07:56
Forum: My Bubba
Topic: Upgrading B3
Replies: 8
Views: 24671

Re: Upgrading B3

Back again....
I found that strings was not installed - to get it, I installed binutils!
With that, I got following response:
root@b3:/home/mt# strings /dev/mtd0 | grep U-Boot
U-Boot 2010.06-rc2-00064-gf41e8d8-dirty (Sep 08 2010 - 13:06:20)
U-Boot
** Invalid partition type "%.32s" (expect "U-Boot ...
by dkpilot
19 Nov 2018, 07:02
Forum: My Bubba
Topic: Upgrading B3
Replies: 8
Views: 24671

Re: Upgrading B3

Hmm, when I run the command strings /dev/mtd0 | grep U-Boot in the ssh terminal I get a command not found reply? How to deal with this? I have the one with the large embossed B3 on the front, though.....
by dkpilot
14 Nov 2018, 15:59
Forum: My Bubba
Topic: Upgrading B3
Replies: 8
Views: 24671

Re: Upgrading B3

Thanks a lot for coming back to me. Really I should have asked two questions: 1. upgrading the original system on the old disk, or 2. installing a new system on a larger then 2TB disk. You are right, no. 1 does not make much sense, since the disk is very old. My issue there would have been if I ...
by dkpilot
14 Nov 2018, 06:19
Forum: My Bubba
Topic: Upgrading B3
Replies: 8
Views: 24671

Upgrading B3

Hi
I have an original B3 wifi with 1 TB disk, its the original Squeeze distribution (Debian 6), kernel 2.6.39.4-11.
I would like to upgrade to latest distribution (Deb 9), and also ensure that it can take disks > 2TB.
What would be the steps to do that? Can it be done using the original USB key ...

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