fread-vagrant
This may be of use to developers but if you're looking to get started using fread you should look at the precompiled images (ToDo) instead.
- Custom firmware
- Abandoned
- Low brick risk
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Before you start
- How hard is it?
- ExpertMeans opening the device, soldering or special hardware.
- What you need
- A USB or MIDI cable
- Comfort with the command line
- A computer
- Tools to open the case
- Can it break my device?
- Very unlikely to break anything.
- Can I undo it?
- The project doesn't say. Assume you can't.
Did it work for you?
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Compatibility
Devices: Amazon Kindle 4.
No compatibility information yet.
Getting started
From the project's README ("Installing fread"):
Copying the files
Put the following files in a directory called fread/:
uImage: The fread kernel (including initramfs) kexec: The command line utility used to switch the running kernel fread.ext4: The fread userland
Connect your e-reader using USB, mount it as a storage device and copy the fread/ directory to the root of the e-reader's filesystem.
NOTE: THE NAMING AND LOCATIONS OF THE FILES AND DIRECTORY IS IMPORTANT!
Enabling usb networking
You can enable usb networking by adding a file named config.txt to the fread/ directory with the contents:
USB="ethernet"
WARNING: There is currently a bug in usb networking that causes the system to crash if the usb cable is not plugged into a computer when usb networking initializes. Remember to plug in the usb cable before booting to fread.
If you are on a Debian/Ubuntu (and probably on many others) then everything should auto-configure (assuming you have a DHCP client enabled) and after bootup is complete you should see a new network interface appear (possibly called usb0) with an assigned IP address in the 192.168.15.x range. You can then connect over ssh:
ssh root@192.168.15.1
The default root password is fread.
Booting into fread using the KUAL extension
This method only works if KUAL is already installed in your kindle.
Somewhere on your computer, clone the fread KUAL extension:
git clone https://github.com/fread-ink/fread-kual-extension …
Risk and recovery
- Brick risk
- Low
- Requires opening the device
- Yes