Restoring the Palm V
Nov. 18th, 2005 06:15 pmKeywords: palm, username, userid, restore, backup
I woke up half an hour late this morning. My Palm V, usually a reliable machine, had crashed hard. The LED was solid, the screen frozen, and I could not even get the box to warm reset. I had to do a cold reset, which means that I then had to go and restore from backup. Not too bad a problem: I make backups.
But the backup kept failing. Those programs that I had bought, rather than the GPLd ones, would not run. I tracked it down to the fact that the User-ID for the Palm had not been set-- and there is no way to set it from the Palm itself. You have to do it from a host computer.
The correct command to do this is install-user -p /dev/pilot -u "User Name". I'm just using this as yet another place to note that down.
I woke up half an hour late this morning. My Palm V, usually a reliable machine, had crashed hard. The LED was solid, the screen frozen, and I could not even get the box to warm reset. I had to do a cold reset, which means that I then had to go and restore from backup. Not too bad a problem: I make backups.
But the backup kept failing. Those programs that I had bought, rather than the GPLd ones, would not run. I tracked it down to the fact that the User-ID for the Palm had not been set-- and there is no way to set it from the Palm itself. You have to do it from a host computer.
The correct command to do this is install-user -p /dev/pilot -u "User Name". I'm just using this as yet another place to note that down.
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