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New MessageDolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) wvirgo
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I have been battling this for over a week and been talking to BAdFlash about it as well. For whatever reason , I cant seem to get dolly to work to send any img file I have tried over to the sandisk. win98 running in dos mode, following everything to a t. ala
dolly xxxxxx.img hd129:
No results file error no5
Have also tried with the /I, no luck either.
have tried on two different v5 with bios v5.40 from BadFlash.
Its getting a might frustrating, any help with be appricated

W

12-19-2002 10:46:39

New MessageRE:Dolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) Ragnar1
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Have you formatted the sandisk? Use partionmagic to see what is on it. Make sure that all 16mb's is there. The midori and jailbait images are 15.3mbs in size. I have had two iopeners where something happened to the sandisk and they would only format to 14.7mb, which is too small for the images. This may be your problem also. If not delete the partitions and format using fat16. Then dry dolly again. Hope that this helps.

Ragnar

12-19-2002 19:13:36

New MessageRE:Dolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) wvirgo
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Ragnar

Thanks for the help. I did try it and sadly it did not work, but I am going to try and do it again tonight, this time with just a dos 6 hard drive with dolly on it. Maybe it will make a difference.

W

12-19-2002 22:12:26

New MessageRE:Dolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) Glitch
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wvirgo: Dolly is sensitive to the name of the image file. This might be the problem. I forget what commonly used characters it chokes on. Change the name of the file to all "alpha" characters (i.e. a-z, no numbers or special chars)in a 8.3 format.
Glitch
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12-20-2002 04:03:50

New MessageRE:Dolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) wvirgo
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Thanks guys for your help. Let me tell you how I finally used Dolly.
I formated a drive with dos. That was it and it worked. no ifs or buts. It
worked right away. Copied Midori, jailbait, dos,and BeIA. I even finally
managed to put the anyisp file on it. Every one works well except the anyisp.
If I boot up with the original bios rom, it just hangs at the Iopener screen.
If I boot up with the V540a bios rom from Badflash, it says something like
"waiting for access to /hda/dev/077" not exactly, but you get the idea, it just
hangs with either bios chip. Any other disk img on the sandisk works fine.
Maybe if I can figure out how to make the modem work under midori, I will
just use that, but this is Iopener 2 for the parents, As the 1st, I will
mostly be using 98 on and it doesnt matter if I boot of the sandisk or not.
The real goal was to take number 2 , dolly the anyisp image and set it up so
they could browse the we and do web mail. this may not work...it looks more like it
as the night progresses (spelling).So the anyisp image is the only one I have
problems with ...

W

12-21-2002 18:29:17

New MessageRE:Dolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) Glitch
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wvirgo: I was never able to get the anyisp image to work with the newer BIOS's. I recall that it worked with the v3 and older ones. I forget the exact versions that I tried, but this info may give you a start in the right direction. HTH.
Glitch
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12-21-2002 19:44:33

New MessageRE:Dolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) Curious
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I need to make an image copy in LINUX. Does anyboby know the easiest way to do it. I know very little about Linux. The computer has a writable CD rom and I am also connected to a network with this unit. I can copy to the CD-RW or another machine in the network. Thanks.
12-23-2002 11:53:55

New MessageRE:Dolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) Ragnar1
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Curios,
If I recall correctly, an image file can be used by either dos or linux. The commands are a little different. linux has a built in command called dd. I don't recall the correct sintax, But it is listed somewhere on this board.


wvirgo,
Open a console in Midori and type in "ppp". If the modem is there you should get the proper response. I don't have a machine loaded with Midori right now so I don't know for sure it that particular image of Midori has modmen support. I seem to remember that one of the images only had network support throught an ethernet adapter.

Ragnar

12-24-2002 08:41:48

New MessageRE:Dolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) radarman
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I'm not an i-opener hacker, I prefer the MSN Companions myself, but I have a minimal FreeBSD installation on a microdrive. Sandisks are recognized as "disks", so you don't need any special options - just dd if=/path/image_name of=/dev/ad0. This would also work for Linux, if you prefer it to FreeBSD.

The bonus to this method is that you can download images from the host system, assuming you have appropriate network gear attached, in case you messed up and copied the wrong image. I've also compiled and installed new kernels using the microdrive and NFS, saving the need to power down my FreeBSD server to install the drive.

12-28-2002 11:04:55

New MessageRE:Dolly alternative??? (modified 0 times) wvirgo
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Ragnar

Thanks for the tip.
Im going to check it out. So if I send the ppp command, will I then be able to put a phone number and user name, password in you think?


Wvirgo

12-28-2002 19:46:42

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