On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 12:48, Adam Warner wrote:
> It looked hopeless. But this worked:
>
> 1. Freeze Merlin.
> 2. Move Merlin to the internal store (lockup here so wait a while).
> 3. Remove card (Newton reboots because I removed the card while
> mounted).
> 4. Insert Card. Wait a while for Paul's superb journaling to fix up the
> card without Merlin on it.
> 5. Unfreeze Merlin.
>
> Zero data loss.
>
> Note for future: Never-move-Merlin-to-a-card.
Oh Dear. Add NetHopper to that list as well.
The same rescue procedure worked BTW (with some additional card removals
forcing a reboot).
Another tip is that it can help to have the overview open so the icons
are not shown in Extras (or vice-versa). To get it to the right view:
(a) remove the card (b) open and set Extras to the view you want (b2)
possible close the extra drawer again (c) insert the card. Hopefully you
won't instantly get a reboot at (c).
Keep trying combinations until you can get to (c) to select the packages
to attempt to delete/freeze/move.
Again I thought it was hopeless until at one manual mount NetHopper had
a problem and couldn't be mounted. This gave me an opportunity to delete
the main Nethopper program. After a few reboots after deleting this and
the two auxiliary programs (and letting the transation log fix up the
store) I was finally rid of NetHopper from the Card.
It appears that any application that intergrates into the Newton OS
cannot be installed on a Card. I note in the LunaSuite Pro "Installation
Notes" (I've haven't installed it yet and I'm looking forward to my free
license code:
http://www.lunatech.com/products/lunasuite/purchase/rollover.ltml) that
the first package must be installed on the internal store for the same
reason.
Regards,
Adam
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