As an FYI, it seems that just copying the rom folder to the right place is not quite enough. I believe we tried this a couple of times and it failed.
Not sure what the installer does, but it installs additional little turds to let the Loader app know there are additional roms. On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Josh Kropf wrote: > I'm joining the thread sort of late so forgive me if I am interpreting > things out of context. > > But with the latest wine I'm not having any problems extracting OS > software packages. > > I do however it get a boat load of errors, and it appears to quietly > crash at the end. However all .cod files are there and so is the .sfi file. > > For example I just exacted 4.5.0 for an 8830. The files are here in wine: > > /home/josh/wine-rim/drive_c/Program Files/Common Files/Research In > Motion/Shared/Loader Files/8830-v4.5.0.138_P3.4.0.30 > > This is a CDMA device so the .sfi is in a sub directory aptly named > CDMA. I can only assume it will be different for other handhelds. > > On 10/26/2010 05:28 PM, Chris Frey wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 02:13:06PM -0700, Theodore Charles III wrote: >>> All the exe does is extract the OS files into a folder in the BB Desktop >>> software folder. So, in theory, if you installed the BB Desktop software >>> in a VMWare installed XP, you could then just get the files from the BB >>> Desktop folder. Some food for thought. :) >> True, but that doesn't help folks like Patrick who don't seem to have >> access to Windows at all. And unfortunately, it's not one of those >> self-extracting ZIP style EXE's either, so Windows ends up being >> a hard requirement. >> >> - Chris >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest >> Create new apps& games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada >> $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing >> Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev >> _______________________________________________ >> Barry-devel mailing list >> Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest > Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada > $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing > Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store > http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Barry-devel mailing list > Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Nokia and AT&T present the 2010 Calling All Innovators-North America contest Create new apps & games for the Nokia N8 for consumers in U.S. and Canada $10 million total in prizes - $4M cash, 500 devices, nearly $6M in marketing Develop with Nokia Qt SDK, Web Runtime, or Java and Publish to Ovi Store http://p.sf.net/sfu/nokia-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Barry-devel mailing list Barry-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/barry-devel
