hi.. i was like many out there without the dvr station and all i could find was you need a dvr station for the GF Hack. so here is a tut for you guys who are like me... Challenged lol!
1st Step: Find the hidden partion of your Archos 5/7 drive
start you archos 5/7 into recovery mode (to do this while the archos is starting hold one of the volume buttons then select repair disk and hit power button. This will get you to the correct place) then connect your your archos with the usb connector.
next
open up your terminal and type in the following
Code:
sudo fdisk -l
should kinda look like this
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x6c1441e5
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 19107 153476946 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 19108 19457 2811375 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 19108 19457 2811343+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x4dd2f678
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 19428 156055378+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
next part is to mount the hidden partion i first by making a folder via the terminal
Code:
sudo mkdir /media/disk
sudo mount -t ext3 -o offset=159800739840 /dev/sdb /media/disk
the offset 159800739840 will be different if you don't have a 160gb hd to figure this number out we use the data from the fdisk -l command
we take the 19428x8225280=159800739840
Step 2: Patched Firmwarenow that we got this done we need to download the the first of the two hacks
the patched firmware dti games
http://archos.g3nius.org/images/9/9e/DT ... er_kit.zipYou should see two folders, patch-1.6.54 and DTi.
Copy the DTi folder in /media/ARCHOS5/Games/ on your data partition. (not the partition you had to mount the normal partition you see (the ARCHOS5 or ARCHOS7)
Open a console and type
Code:
sudo nautilus /media/disk
you should see a file browser (with root privileges) appear, now copy all files from patch-1.6.54 to /media/disk. Close nautilus and type these commands in your console: (copy the files in the patch-1.6.54 into the system partion @ /media/disk)
Code:
cd /media/disk
sudo chown 0:0 flash mv rm
sudo chmod a+rx,ug+s flash mv rm
The chown command changes the owner of the flash, mv and rm files to root. The chmod command will set some flags on the files so that they will be executed on your device with the privileges of the file's owner (which is now root).
That's it, unmount all the partitions:
Code:
sudo sync
sudo umount /media/ARCHOS7
sudo umount /media/disk
go to play->games->dti
You should see a game named Install patched firmware with a penguin as the logo. Click Play, then Play again on the next screen. At this point the screen will be unresponsive for some time, this is perfectly normal. The loading screen will appear and return to the penguin logo, at this point the patched firmware should be successfully installed!
Reboot your device: hold the Power button for about 6 seconds until you see the Shutting Down... screen and then power on again.
Step 3: Guy Fawkes hack
now once again remount the hidden system partition with the earlier instructions.
also you need to download the guy fawkes hack
http://archos-liberation-front.googleco ... _alpha.zipnext
open console
Code:
sudo nautilus /media/disk
then just drag and drop the rootfs.cramfs.secure into the /media/disk
next just do a
Code:
sudo sync
sudo umount /media/ARCHOS7
sudo umount /media/disk
then reboot the archos all the way more than just a suspend and restart it and your done you have a full jailbroken archos gen6
all info was gathered from other tutorials
Special thanks to EINSTEIN, ACHILLES and archosfans, archos.g3nius.org and everyone else just reading your post made me able to figure this out.. i know i might be stupid but i figure i'm not the only one who is stupid (lol)
Thankyou nokiae50 for helping simplify the tutorial!
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