I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2

Re:I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2 by greenhathacker on Monday September 27, 2021 @02:27PM (#28674199)

I made the mistake in that post of not mentioning that I didn't want to be required to connect the rm2 to wifi, and installing a package manager would mean I would need to do that to install software. If anything it would be something I would temporarily install, use it to install rsync, then figure out how to uninstall it, and in my mind that's functionally equivalent to what I was doing with docker. Pushing to / instead of /opt was my mistake :)

I apologize, I could have better expressed why I took the path I did. I'll edit the post later today.

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Re:I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2 by Eeems on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @11:30AM (#28683980)

That makes a lot more sense. you can always just install initially and then use opkg to install local packages you scp across in the future as well: `opkg install path/to/package.ipk`

another option would be to just grab the files from the package itself and extract them to the device, and then manually run the install script steps as required. They are basically just gz tarballs.

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Re:I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2 by Eeems on Tuesday September 28, 2021 @01:56PM (#28685535)

For anybody wanting more context on the ipk format: https://github.com/toltec-dev/toltec/blob/stable/docs/opkg.m...

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Re:I bricked then recovered my reMarkable 2 by kayodelycaon on Monday September 27, 2021 @06:34PM (#28676916)

Ah! Now that approach makes a lot more sense. Any particular reason to avoid putting it on a WiFi network for a few minutes?

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