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iPod touch Installer crashes during "Oktoprep"

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I am doing it through putty and through VT_1 terminal and it says the folder does not exist?

Enigma
 
doblezeta said:
There's a manual solution to this for those who can't wait for oktoprep to get fixed.

1) You need SSH installed on iPhone
In Installer, download and install:
BSD Subsystem
OpenSSH (if you don't have an SSH app installed on your iPhone yet)
Term-VT100

2) Download and unzip http://conceitedsoftware.com/iphone/zips/OktoPrep.zip

3) Put the mknod file in the sbin directory that was extracted from the file you just downloaded to the sbin directory of your iPhone using an SSH application (Fugu or Cyberduck for Mac, Putty for Windows). You'll get a prompt to overwrite if you put the file in the correct folder on your iPhone.

4) When you finally have mknod file on your iPhone, restart it, then launch Term-VT on your iPhone and type:
/sbin/mknod ~/Media/disk c 14 1

Restart iPhone (just to be sure)

5) You're now oktoprepped, you can safely update to 1.1.2 and launch jailbreak.jar
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Thanks a ton!!! I can confirm this works perfectly. Although I used File Manager in iFuntastic to copy mknod to the sbin directory. I'm now updated to jailbroken 1.1.2. Sweet!

I don't think I'll ever update my iPhone again.
 
doblezeta said:
There's a manual solution to this for those who can't wait for oktoprep to get fixed.

1) You need SSH installed on iPhone
In Installer, download and install:
BSD Subsystem
OpenSSH (if you don't have an SSH app installed on your iPhone yet)
Term-VT100

2) Download and unzip http://conceitedsoftware.com/iphone/zips/OktoPrep.zip

3) Put the mknod file in the sbin directory that was extracted from the file you just downloaded to the sbin directory of your iPhone using an SSH application (Fugu or Cyberduck for Mac, Putty for Windows). You'll get a prompt to overwrite if you put the file in the correct folder on your iPhone.

4) When you finally have mknod file on your iPhone, restart it, then launch Term-VT on your iPhone and type:
/sbin/mknod ~/Media/disk c 14 1

Restart iPhone (just to be sure)

5) You're now oktoprepped, you can safely update to 1.1.2 and launch jailbreak.jar
Click to expand...

using terminal on the iphone/touch had crossed my mind, but my typing on the iphone is pants, so I'd rather use SSH. :p
 
Done using ssh and sftp on a mac!!

Thanks for the great walkthrough!
Now I just have to figure out why mail crashes with my imap gmail account... probably because of the number of messages? Anyway that's a whole different story!
 
Celloch said:
Done using ssh and sftp on a mac!!

Thanks for the great walkthrough!
Now I just have to figure out why mail crashes with my imap gmail account... probably because of the number of messages? Anyway that's a whole different story!
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care to walk us through your sftp step? would be really usefull. Thanks.
 
Oktoprep Works now

earlier tonight i lauched intaller.app and suddenly the oktoprep gets past the installation phase, on my way to 1.1.2 jailbreak....i can personaly confirm that oktoprep in installer works and installs without a crash
 
oktoprep working again...

just confirming the oktoprep is successfully installing again as of 16:30 PST nov 25. No idea why it went bad for a while. perhaps someone will tell us some day. But for now downgrade-jaibreak-upgrade is working again. I am now jailbroken on 1.1.2 though jailbreak.jar and itunes7.5. thanks to the dev team and community! get it now while its hot.
 
OK - I loaded Octo. How do I get that new 1.1.2 jailbreak file in the phone or ? what do I do with it? I never see instructions if one is to load it directly on the phone or the computer, etc.

And - I didn't know we could use iTunes 7.5? When in the process do we upgrade to that or doesn't it matter?
 
meagain said:
OK - I loaded Octo. How do I get that new 1.1.2 jailbreak file in the phone or ? what do I do with it? I never see instructions if one is to load it directly on the phone or the computer, etc.

And - I didn't know we could use iTunes 7.5? When in the process do we upgrade to that or doesn't it matter?
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Download the Jailbreak 1.1.2 zip file and extract it somewhere on your computer. If you're on a Mac, double click jailbreak.jar. If you're on a Windows machine, double click windows.bat. Then follow the instructions.

NOTE: If windows.bat just makes command prompt show up for a millisecond then disappear without doing anything, you need to download the Java Runtime Environment. You can find that here.

Once Jailbreak 1.1.2 starts it's fairly self-explanatory; choose to install SSH or not, set root password if you chose SSH, then hit the "JAILBREAK MY PHONE" button. Then you just have to be patient while it copies files. It will reboot a few times when it's done!
 
killernice said:
care to walk us through your sftp step? would be really usefull. Thanks.
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I'm gonna try to explain this from memory, I'm at work on a pc..

OK first I unzipped oktoprep to my desktop, it created a folder called sbin with mknod.

Open Terminal and issue the following commands

sftp root@192.168.1.5 (replace IP address with yours)
lcd /users/celloch/desktop/sbin (this sets your sbin folder as the working folder on your machine, of course your username will be different)
cd /sbin (this sets the sbin folder as the working dir on your ipod)
put mknod (this uploads and overwrite the original mknod)
bye (this closes the session)

You should NOT get any error messages when issuing the cd and lcd commands.

After that you can proceed using SSH.

Hope this helps!
 
I know this is a mac forum. But I'm using windows. I did all the step untill I want to jailbreak using windows.bat. After I click jailbreak on the window, I got a message: can not connect to your device, connect your device and try again...
I try it for 10 times. Downgrade my iphone and try again for 4 hours and still get the same message.
Anybody has anyidea what could be wrong. Please help
I just bought my iphone and it is useless now!
 
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