Help requested to update firmware
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 8:26 pm
A brief word by way of introduction as I’ve just joined this board. I’m a retired mainframe computer specialist and a reasonably experienced Windows user. But UNIX in its various flavours is a (tightly) closed book written in a foreign language!
I’ve got a Joggler that I bought secondhand nearly three years ago when it was a year old. It came with a USB stick with Ubuntu and Squeezebox, but I never got it working and it’s been in a cupboard until now, when I thought I’d either get it working or get rid of it.
But I’m getting nowhere fast, so in hope of some assistance here’s what I’ve done – where am I going wrong?
I read up about PnP III, and as it recommended the latest firmware as a first step I went to the ‘birdslikewires’ site to set about installing v30300.
First step:
“To install Version 30300 on your Joggler, download the .img.gz and accompanying MD5 checksum file from the links above. Then follow the instructions on the Reflashing Tool pages to make your reflash device.”
I downloaded the .img.gz file from the link at the top of the page, and the MD5 (which I assume is some sort of checksum), and put them into a folder \Joggler.
“Download Win32DiskImager, then unpack the .img.gz file using a tool like 7-zip. Run W32DiskImager.exe, and select the unpacked .img file. Choose the drive that corresponds to your USB stick and use ‘Write’ to write the image.”
I downloaded 7-Zip and used it to unpack the .img.gz, which produced a file <of1_30300_openpeak.img> 1,004,032Kb in size.
I downloaded, installed and ran Win32DiskImager: I pointed the input to the .img.gz above, and the output to an 8Gb Sandisk USB stick. When it had finished I ejected and re-inserted the USB drive – Windows file manager shows just five files: boot.efi, initrd, startup.nsh, sum0, vmlinux0.
Second step: “Download the Reflashing Script and copy the file into the reflash directory of the rfl-boot volume on the USB device.”
I can manage the download part – it’s a plain text file. But where to put it?? The second part might as well be in Chinese! There’s no directory (or folder) named ‘reflash’ on my USB stick. And what’s an rfl-boot volume?? And what part does the MD5 file now on my Windows PC have to play?
Could someone please explain – using non-Unix specific language – what I need to do?
I’ve got a Joggler that I bought secondhand nearly three years ago when it was a year old. It came with a USB stick with Ubuntu and Squeezebox, but I never got it working and it’s been in a cupboard until now, when I thought I’d either get it working or get rid of it.
But I’m getting nowhere fast, so in hope of some assistance here’s what I’ve done – where am I going wrong?
I read up about PnP III, and as it recommended the latest firmware as a first step I went to the ‘birdslikewires’ site to set about installing v30300.
First step:
“To install Version 30300 on your Joggler, download the .img.gz and accompanying MD5 checksum file from the links above. Then follow the instructions on the Reflashing Tool pages to make your reflash device.”
I downloaded the .img.gz file from the link at the top of the page, and the MD5 (which I assume is some sort of checksum), and put them into a folder \Joggler.
“Download Win32DiskImager, then unpack the .img.gz file using a tool like 7-zip. Run W32DiskImager.exe, and select the unpacked .img file. Choose the drive that corresponds to your USB stick and use ‘Write’ to write the image.”
I downloaded 7-Zip and used it to unpack the .img.gz, which produced a file <of1_30300_openpeak.img> 1,004,032Kb in size.
I downloaded, installed and ran Win32DiskImager: I pointed the input to the .img.gz above, and the output to an 8Gb Sandisk USB stick. When it had finished I ejected and re-inserted the USB drive – Windows file manager shows just five files: boot.efi, initrd, startup.nsh, sum0, vmlinux0.
Second step: “Download the Reflashing Script and copy the file into the reflash directory of the rfl-boot volume on the USB device.”
I can manage the download part – it’s a plain text file. But where to put it?? The second part might as well be in Chinese! There’s no directory (or folder) named ‘reflash’ on my USB stick. And what’s an rfl-boot volume?? And what part does the MD5 file now on my Windows PC have to play?
Could someone please explain – using non-Unix specific language – what I need to do?