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<div>Oh one more thing.. the USB memory stick,does it matter if its fat or fat32 formatted to copy the 6 files over to it,it don’t say in the Readme..?<br>
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<div>“When it flash's Linux to the E3 it only uses partitions mtd0,mtd1,mtd3 and mtd4, so mtd2 and mtd3 is not used.”</div>
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<div>mtd0 - kernel </div>
<div>mtd1 - PBL ( Maybe, I say this because Uboot is flashed there.)<br>
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<div>mtd3 - ldr ( File System..? uses mtdblock3 of mtd3)</div>
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<div>What are mtd2 and mtd5 used for..??<br>
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Trying to find out what each Partition is used for?</div>
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<div>Is the Amstrad Install Script running in a Ramdisk..??</div>
<div>You have 2 Uboot images the same, one for flashing the other on for the install so you made it a bit like
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<font color="#000000" face="Calibri" style="font-size: 12pt; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">FEL mode where you hold down the FEL Button and can boot into Uboot +ramdisk from you PC thought its usb cable that powers it then you can mount the system partition
to get into files and folders, that's on TheC64 Mini.</font></span></div>
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<div>Just trying to find out more ,it dumps the firmware into 6 partitions, when it dumps them, can they be put back the way they are or do they need to be converted, so what I am say, are they raw files so they can’t be used the way they are at the moment…?<br>
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You can backup your firmware with this script without installing Linux on the E3,you can say no to installing it, right..?? if so I will try and see if I can back the E3 up to get the 6 backup files.</div>
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<div>P.S Have not done anything with my E2Plus yet, if I can backup its firmware and then flash it back then I can fix the dead E2s out there, but I need help.</div>
<div>If I can backup its firmware I am willing to share it.But don’t worry my E2Plus is going no where.. 😊 Just been looking at you page Ralph,One of the problem with the E2 is it don’t run Linux, I am trying to find out more about its firmware at the moment.<br>
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<div>The E1 and E2 use the same Firmware and same CPU <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); text-transform: none; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; word-spacing: 0px; float: none; display: inline !important; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;">
Sharp LH79531 ARM (L136 00B)</span>, the only difference in them is the Plus had ZX Spectrum games. So I might be able to use the firmware from the E2 on the E1. The E3 had a different CPU because it need a MMU for the Colour LCD screen so need to be more powerful
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