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[peca]

I booting from card and run HF4 PDN. Is HF4 applied to OS on card or to OS on NAND? Anyway, after this I run HF4 PND again, but boot from NAND instead from card. I'm not sure, how to state what HF is applied and if all patches from it.
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And for explanation - I'm a lame in Linux (just an user).

[EvilDragon]

I booting from card and run HF4 PDN. Is HF4 applied to OS on card or to OS on NAND? Anyway, after this I run HF4 PND again, but boot from NAND instead from card. I'm not sure, how to state what HF is applied and if all patches from it.
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And for explanation - I'm a lame in Linux (just an user).

As HF4 installs most things using a package manager, it will update your main OS.
That means: If you boot from your SD Card, it updates the OS on your SD Card.
If you boot from NAND, it updates the OS on your NAND.

The only thing that is not properly updated maybe is the kernel. If you use the kernel from the NAND (even when booting from SD Card), it should be the most recent.
If you use your own kernel on the SD Card, you might check if it needs to be updated.

Easiest check: Run any N64 game in Mupen. If it doesn't show graphics, you're using an old kernel

[peca]

I'm not N64 fan yet, but if replace kernel mean: "boot from NAND, put latest uImage (or one from Pandora-Flashkit-2010-08-Zaxxon.zip/bootf.tgz file) on USB flash, copy it to SD card (sudo cp from to should work) and reboot from card", then I can manage it :-)
Thanks for tip.

[EvilDragon]

I'm not N64 fan yet, but if replace kernel mean: "boot from NAND, put latest uImage (or one from Pandora-Flashkit-2010-08-Zaxxon.zip/bootf.tgz file) on USB flash, copy it to SD card (sudo cp from to should work) and reboot from card", then I can manage it :-)
Thanks for tip.

Yep, exactly that

[Kimundi]

ED, what about my UFT8 proposal, is it still in the testing phase?

Yep, if you browse through the internet, you can find a lot of problem posts regarding UTF8 with VFAT - definately not something I want to put into the final without real testing.
I need to get to a Windows Box, too, and create files with Umlauts first

If it's just about the that, then I could send you some testfiles I created.

[DaveC]

Good idea .. We could probably opkg remove some junk, but probably not too too much extras in there.

ED is working on the filter selector so should be in HF5 but yeah, apps will have to look into it perhaps, and maybe a libpnd change to force (?) it back to default on exit so misbehaved apps dont chabge it and forget to change it back?

Should also add in an option so appdata can group with the app, for you and time permitting, when looking at an ovr editor, will make it so you can override preview pics even if not present.. I didnt forget!

Only a couple apps are spitting to nand, like chromium .. Not really ported to pandora, just hacked to run on it, so doesnt follow all the rules, but likely an easy workaround

Jeffphone

Sounds like cool additions. Have you given any thought as to how to do the graphic instead of text on tabs option? I didn't get a reply as to what you thought of it.

I rarely ever even boot into XFCE so any non-essential apps could be nixed. I don't use it for any internet stuff (hardly ever near WiFi and my phone does it better anyway) So I could nix all but the most rudimentary internet stuff which I would only need in a rare case. All of those other games demos etc could be deep sixed too. It would be nice to have an app picker that would remove unwanted crap (the crap would be decided by user) kind of like the windows control panel app remover.

[peca]

Yep, exactly that

Just FYI, uImage on SD card has the same size as new one from tarball. I suppose that HF4 update it properly.
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Anyway, it will be nice to see HF# and kernel version on some splash screen, about box or just on booting screen.

And second thought, should be nice if logon screen allow switch to console. I have trouble with full NAND (not confirmed) on my trip in Bulgaria - while browsing with Chromium I get some trouble and after reboot Pandora wasn't start X. I know that on standard PC Alt+F# work. I try it on Pandora ant it work too (it's little tricky - press Alt+F1 after graphical logon disappear). I messing with manual starting X and when spot messages about insufficient space I take suspicion that Chromium fill up my NAND. So I delete whole content of (don't remember exactly) some tmp dir and maybe even application dir in home dir. After that I can't get to console any more. When I try logon (i graphical logon screen) it show again and again as it can start windows. But at this state I can't get to console and can't do anything.

[Mr Loon]

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Anyway, it will be nice to see HF# and kernel version on some splash screen, about box or just on booting screen.
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+1, can't be that hard surely?

[Trickyhero]

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Anyway, it will be nice to see HF# and kernel version on some splash screen, about box or just on booting screen.
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+1, can't be that hard surely?

+1 that would be nice