[Replicant] Installing replicant without USB ?

[Denis 'GNUtoo' Carikli]

On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 21:51:28 +0200
Frédéric Lochon <lochon at crazyfamily.fr> wrote:

> Another guess was to use some utilities (something like "dd" from GNU
> coreutils) to write the KERNEL partition.
> But, again, I'm not comfortable with eMMC storage.

This is the approach I described with:
> Then flash the recovery, if the partition is on an eMMC, you can
> probably use something like that:
> # cat /dev/zero > /path/to/recovery/partition
> # cat /path/to/recovery.img > /path/to/recovery/partition

Unfortunately it was confusing as I didn't check which partitions it
must be flashed on. According to what you wrote above, it is the KERNEL
partition.

cat is used instead of dd as it is more commonly available among
Android distributions.

Denis.
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