Noob Question About The Operating System. . .


SoleGrave

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The faq says the Pandora will ship with its OS pre-installed. If something goes wrong how would one reinstall the OS? Does Pandora ship with a separate media for this purpose?





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SoleGrave said:
The faq says the Pandora will ship with its OS pre-installed. If something goes wrong how would one reinstall the OS? Does Pandora ship with a separate media for this purpose?

There would be a guide on the Wiki or somewhere else that gives you instructions on how to copy an OS image to an SD card, how to boot the Pandora from that SD card and how to copy over the OS image from the SD card to the Pandora's internal NAND, similar to how you would flash your BIOS on your PC.

In other words, no big deal, and nothing all too difficult.

And even if you somehow manage to break the internal NAND so that no replacement OS can be installed (which is very VERY improbable), you'll still have the ability to install either the default OS or another OS to an SD card and to always boot from that SD card.

BTW, the Pandora will have a free operating system, so you don't need a serial to install it and it's not illegal to make backups of it, copy it to other devices, to change it however you want to, or to even SELL it to others (provided that you release the source). Just making sure that you know this.
 
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SoleGrave said:
The faq says the Pandora will ship with its OS pre-installed. If something goes wrong how would one reinstall the OS? Does Pandora ship with a separate media for this purpose?

It can boot from the SD card, and you can re flash it from there also. It's to make it unbrickable, if you brick it, just reflash it from th SD card :)
 
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The Pandora can boot from an SD card. From there, it will hopefully be straightforward to change whatever is on the internal storage. Also, (correct me if I'm wrong here) an OS can be installed on an SD card, and ran straight from there, useful if you plan on experimenting with different OS's.
 
Miner49er said:
Na-Noo said:
SoleGrave said:
It's to make it unbrickable, if you brick it, just reflash it from th SD card :)

Hmm, how does one 'brick' something that is 'unbrickable'. Surely the definition of 'unbrickable' means it cannot be 'bricked'.

I'm sure you was just joking, but anyway. Brick in loose term as in corrupt the NAND and therefore cant boot from it any more. But because of the facility to boot and re flash from the SD card you can un brick it and all will be right with the world.
 
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