Flashing from linux?

[bikeandestroyx]

Is there any way to flash a rom on a linux system im currently using fedora 11 and ubuntu 8.10 and i want to get rid of vista!
the only reason i still have it on my computer is so i can flash my touch pro
I dont want someone telling me to do the sd card flash either because the TP doesnt even show up as connected in fedora.

[Machinehead]

What about using a windows emulator in linux?

Edit: you could still do SD card flashes, but you'd have to remove the SD card from the phone to copy the files over.

[bikeandestroyx]

like wine? do you have any suggestions of programs to use?

[Machinehead]

Originally Posted by ibmxx187

like wine? do you have any suggestions of programs to use?

I'm not a linux guy, just throwing out the first idea that came to me.

[bikeandestroyx]

Originally Posted by Machinehead

I'm not a linux guy, just throwing out the first idea that came to me.

alright well thanks man i gotta look into it i need to find a good one that works

[Machinehead]

Originally Posted by ibmxx187

alright well thanks man i gotta look into it i need to find a good one that works

There's quite a few very mature options for both OSX and Windows, so you'd think there'd be something good for Linux.

[Willis111]

Originally Posted by SyXbiT

I bricked my phone (HTC Titan) a year ago by flashing from linux.
luckily I could get back to the bootloader and flash from SD card.

Perhaps I have a different definition of brick but for me being able to easily access the bootloader and start a flash program != brick ^^ Were you able to for gsm software on your cdma phone or anything from nix?

Originally Posted by ibmxx187

like wine? do you have any suggestions of programs to use?

I'm running gentoo here and with the new self compressed exe you can either open them with ark, toss the nbh on your sd card and rename "DIAMIMG.nbh" etc etc or you can wine the exe to extract it and navigate to your wine/c_drive/windows/temp/ folder and extract the nbh from the direct and toss it on the sd card in your phone and rename it DIAMIMG.nbh etc etc ... I think linux and windows use different api's and the ruu flash program that we're all using is a windows only app. I mean it runs in wine but when it goes to look for usbcore.sys and you're using usbcore.o .... I haven't tried that flasher xda either... if you're having trouble installing it try googling tar.gz(will show you how to extract the actual files) and "howto install apps in linux" for instructions on installing any linux apps (usually just extract, ./configure, make, make install)

Edit: I was amazed with how many results I got for this topic by going to google and typing "flash linux ppcgeeks" "flash linux xda", most of them relevant to OP.... most ended up at this page if you followed links in threads http://code.google.com/p/htc-flasher/wiki/HomePage

Edit2: was just thinking about installing software in *nix .... imo best idea once you've extracted your files and before you start setting up is to look in the folder where your files were placed for a file called README and another called INSTALL and take a quick glance at those files.

[bikeandestroyx]

Originally Posted by Machinehead

What about using a windows emulator in linux?

Edit: you could still do SD card flashes, but you'd have to remove the SD card from the phone to copy the files over.

yeah i really dont like doing sd flashes either it takes more time to set it up and flash than just clicking a few buttons

[mikeklemz]

There was an open source flashing app over at XDA... I think it supported a limitied number of devices though. I'll see what I can dig up, as far as links go.
*edit* http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=399762 */edit*

[stifiling]

it'll work through using virtualbox, to emulate xp (maybe vista too, don't see why not)

are you familiar with virtualbox?? i feel it's a must have program to go along with your linux box...for those times (like now) when u jus have to use windows.