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[Q] How can I root my Infuse without a computer or through linux mint 11

My computer has very low ram, as a result anything related to flash or anything having high memory requirement crashes and usually freezes ie resulting in a restart
So I would like to keep the computer out of the equation
I am wondering if one can root a phone without a computer
This may seem like an odd request/question but I am in a terrible place, my stuff was stolen, I am even more broke than before.
Thanks for any help

You can try z4root.apk but it may or may not work....really need a computer with superoneclick
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use virtualbox to run Windows and use superoneclick using the virtual Windows.
here's the website with info for getting it going and downloads
https://www.virtualbox.org/
good luck

hollywood528 said:
use virtualbox to run Windows and use superoneclick using the virtual Windows.
here's the website with info for getting it going and downloads
https://www.virtualbox.org/
good luck
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his computer has low ram. running a vm will make that situation much much worse!
look in the dev section for a root/unlock tool from lost1 it includes adb, ragagainst the cage binary and a batch script for windows and shell scripts for linux and mac. just extract the package to a convienient place like c:\ in windows or your home or root directory in linux then using comand line cd into the extracted folder and run the approraite script.

I can do this within linux ?

GreenAce92 said:
I can do this within linux ?
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yes, there are different scripts for different os's the root.sh is the one for Linux. under the assumption you are a Linux newb to execute a ascription you may need to change permissions to executable first. you can usually set this in gnome or whatever window manager you like. or with chmod
chmod 0755 root.sh
then to execute the script you just type
./root.sh
this is all assuming you are within the folder that contains the script.
it appears all it does it move a binary to /data/local wait a few seconds and then copy su to /system/bin. you could easily do that through adb if you are familiar with it.

So uhh
Could you dumb this down even further, I am a complete linux newb as you say and I have just installed Linux Mint 11 32bit on an old HD of mine so Linux is here to stay, I'm interested in learning it too
But anyways... what can you suggest so that I can catch up / understand what you have just told me to do?
Thanks for this

GreenAce92 said:
So uhh
Could you dumb this down even further, I am a complete linux newb as you say and I have just installed Linux Mint 11 32bit on an old HD of mine so Linux is here to stay, I'm interested in learning it too
But anyways... what can you suggest so that I can catch up / understand what you have just told me to do?
Thanks for this
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first download the root/unlock package from this thread
forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081072
unzip the package and find the root.sh file.
ok, Linux sets file permissions that tell the system who can access the file and how. on Ubuntu new files are set as non executable by default. mint being based on Ubuntu is the same. the permissions are set with a 4 digit number, the first number is special permissions and you wont use that very often. the second digit is for the user that owns the file, the 3rd is for the group and the 4th is for the others.
if you use command line the chmod command will set these permissions. 7 designates read write and executable, 6 is read write, 5 is read and executable, 4 is read only.
but you can also set a file as executable in gnome. right click the icon and choose properties. there should be a box that says "is executable" or "alow execution of file as program" or something. check that box for the "script.sh" file.
once you do that right click in the widow of the folder that the root.sh script is in and choose "open in terminal" or "open window terminal here" this will open a command line window open to that directory.
make sure debugging is enabled in settings>applications on the phone and connect with the data cable. don't mount the SD card.
now type ./root.sh
that should start the script and root the phone. reboot when it's done.

Excellent
Many thanks to you good sir, I shall report back when I have tried this

Try looking here, works on Windows, Mac, and Linux: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1081072

GreenAce92 said:
Excellent
Many thanks to you good sir, I shall report back when I have tried this
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oh forgot, you might need to set adb as executable as well. same thing. right click and go to properties>permissions>allow execution... or whatever it says in gnome. (I use kde and occasionally xfce for low performance hardware, but mostly kde)

Use heimdall to flash a custom kernel

[Q]How can I extra the system.img file

Can dev teach me ..
How can I extra the system.img file under windows 7 OS.

dickluo said:
Can dev teach me ..
How can I extra the system.img file under windows 7 OS.
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You will need the android SDK and adb.
You can either do this through the terminal app on the phone or by using adb...
With adb:
From windows command line, and the phone connected via usb.
adb shell
su
cat /dev/block/system > /sdcard/system.img
If you use the terminal, you run the same commands as above, except the adb command.
To get the file on your hard drive, run this from the windows command prompt:
adb pull /sdcard/system.img .
Jim
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EDIT- lol, Jim and I had two different perspectives on your question . Are you asking how to create a system.img based off of your current /system, or are you asking how to extract an .img you already have and set up a working directory for ROM building?
Under Win7? Good luck with that. The system.img contains a filesystem that Windows doesn't natively support. You can use an app like Ext2Read to open and extract .img's, but if you do that all the symlinking will get messed up because Windows filesystems don't support symlinks. Also, Ext2Read might freeze or not fully extract the image just because of compatibility issues.
I highly recommend you use VirtualBox or set up a dual-boot with a Linux OS like Ubuntu. From there, you can install the ROM Kitchen which makes building ROMs a lot easier. It will let you set up a working directory based off of a system .img, and it detects all symlinks and adds them to the updater-script.

cogeary said:
EDIT- lol, Jim and I had two different perspectives on your question . Are you asking how to create a system.img based off of your current /system, or are you asking how to extract an .img you already have and set up a working directory for ROM building?
Under Win7? Good luck with that. The system.img contains a filesystem that Windows doesn't natively support. You can use an app like Ext2Read to open and extract .img's, but if you do that all the symlinking will get messed up because Windows filesystems don't support symlinks. Also, Ext2Read might freeze or not fully extract the image just because of compatibility issues.
I highly recommend you use VirtualBox or set up a dual-boot with a Linux OS like Ubuntu. From there, you can install the ROM Kitchen which makes building ROMs a lot easier. It will let you set up a working directory based off of a system .img, and it detects all symlinks and adds them to the updater-script.
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Thanks cogeary .
I need the ext2read to explorer the *.img file and it can extra anyone file from *.img to my disk.
And can I use the *.apk from other *.img to create/use on my phone/system.

dickluo said:
Thanks cogeary .
I need the ext2read to explorer the *.img file and it can extra anyone file from *.img to my disk.
And can I use the *.apk from other *.img to create/use on my phone/system.
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Sometimes. You can probably use apps like the alarm clock or browser that come from a different firmware, but don't try using framework files (like framework-res, systemui, etc) and important apps (like the dialer or phone) from different firmwares.

[Q] cannot run MyFirstApp on windows 7 with adb and AVD

It seems it is not an easy thing to start android development. I followed the official instruction and tried to run the MyFirstApp example from developer.android.com on my Windows 7 64bit machine with AVD. But after 2 days effort, I am still cannot make it work for me in Eclipse and in adb command line.
The best I reached in command line approach is the following -- the second block with italic words shows the error I got:
Code:
E:\Workspace\MyFirstApp>ls bin
AndroidManifest.xml build.prop
AndroidManifest.xml.d classes
MyFirstApp-debug-unaligned.apk classes.dex
MyFirstApp-debug-unaligned.apk.d classes.dex.d
MyFirstApp-debug.apk dexedLibs
MyFirstApp.ap_ proguard.txt
MyFirstApp.ap_.d res
[I][B]E:\Workspace\MyFirstApp>adb install bin\MyFirstApp-debug.apk
failed to copy 'bin\MyFirstApp-debug.apk' to '/data/local/tmp/MyFirstApp-debug.a
pk': No such file or directory
rm failed for /data/local/tmp/MyFirstApp-debug.apk, No such file or directory[/B][/I]
I hope somebody can help me about these:
1. I am in Windows with AVD, why adb want to find /data/local/tmp, which is linux style location?
2. where does the adb try to copy the apk file to? My SDK is installed under "C:\Users\myname\AppData\Local\Android\android-sdk". There is no space in the address path. The source apk file is ready and should not be the cause of that error, I think.
3. Any configuration of the installed SDK needs to be modified in Windows machine? I think the SDK manager should be able to figure out what the machine is and download/install appropriate components for the user. Is that right?
I have similar or the same issue by using Eclipse.
thanks,

[Q] unpack userdata***.backup from cwm on windows

Hi/Hello/good evening!
I have a broken MTK phone waiting for spareparts and one backup file from its SDCard made with CWM
name userdata_20130615_140224.backup where I need to extract contact data from.
How to do it?
I have been searching a whole while now but could not find one single post about opening this archive.
Pls help!
Thank you,
Erwin

If u have any spare phone with Titanium Backup installed then u can transfer ur backup to tat mobile's sd card and use TB to extract data from Nanoid Backup..
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hi,
unyaffs doesnt work on that .backup file and I dont have a spare phone lying around. I got the file on windows
and please after reading 20.000 tuts on "backups" can there be one that explains how to extract the file
with windows?
thank you,
Erwin

NOW!!!
ewoewo said:
hi,
unyaffs doesnt work on that .backup file and i dont have a spare phone lying around. I got the file on windows
and please after reading 20.000 tuts on "backups" can there be one that explains how to extract the file
with windows?
Thank you,
erwin
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tell me the tec solution internet!

ewoewo said:
Hi/Hello/good evening!
I have a userdata#######.backup and I cant enter into recovery mode. once i try toenter recovery mode in boots and shuts down without entering into recovery mode. I want to restore this backup file. Help me out
Thank you!!
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It's a 512 byte header in front of a "tar.gz"
hexdump -C userdata_xxxxxxxx_yyyyyy.backup | less​showed the magical zip header "1f8b0800 00000000" at offset 0x200
So, skipping 512 bytes, the rest can be gunzip | tar
dd if=userdata_xxxxxxxx_yyyyyy.backup bs=512 skip=1 | gunzip -c | tar xv​

Code:
dd if=/home/user/_backups/E380-android-phone/userdata_20160126_223433.backup bs=512 skip=1 > /home/user/_backups/E380-android-phone/userdata_20160126_223433.backup.dd-out.tar.gz
Worked for me. Then just used KDE's archive opener (Ark) to view the files, looks to have everything in there except keys and whatnot.

if you prefer a linux solution use this script it converts android backup to nandroid backup
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=65374561

Hello! Super-Developers, mega-programmers and smart hackers!
Nobody does not know how to open *. backup file?
No one can't help in this problem suffering millions of android/windows users?
You suggest them to install Unix/Linux system, - everybody to become hackers and programmers?!
maybe in the World exists GUI- programme to open *. backup file?
Someone can solve this problem of the century?

Philoandr said:
Hello! Super-Developers, mega-programmers and smart hackers!
Nobody does not know how to open *. backup file?
No one can't help in this problem suffering millions of android/windows users?
You suggest them to install Unix/Linux system, - everybody to become hackers and programmers?!
maybe in the World exists GUI- programme to open *. backup file?
Someone can solve this problem of the century?
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What do you expect. You are trying to edit a Linux based file. Not to mention a closed sourced compressed file.

There are free programs like OSFMount or DiskInternals Linux Reader for mounting (android) linux file system images on Windows. Also 7-Zip for Windows can extract files from linux file system images.
However, there is metadata like user identifier and group ownership, file permissions, SELinux context (user role type range) stored for each file, which gets lost once you have saved linux files to windows disk. Without this metadata you can not restore files to phone.
Regardless you can extract files in windows if you just care about pictures, music files etc. Maybe one day there is a developer who may write such a program no matter its useless for restoring complete user data to phone.
Regarding the userdata*.backup files (no cwm) this is a chinese feature not provided by google android open source project. Without source code its nearly impossible to analyze the checksum algorithm. You can not re-create a userdata*.backup file.
What you can do is unpacking it. make a guess. cut off the first 512 byte header of each file which is probably the checksum. then merge the files together. Now you have a file for further analysis. Its probably either a ext4 disk image or a (gz compressed) tarball archive. a disk image can be mounted as a new drive, metadata keeps preserved in this case. a tarball archive must extracted with gnu tar to linux file system. when extracting with 7-Zip you will lose metadata.
There is a risk of tarball archive is unheadered Tar, in this case 7-zip will not extract it. If your phone is encrypted, the disk image is probably encrypted disk image (thats where the hacker stuff starts).
If you want to remove the checksum in windows, there is a small problem. There is no such command. You can use a third party command line utility Trunc to try it. (truncate deletes only from tail)
Another way for Windows, you can use some linux utils with cygwin. I don't know exactly how to do it, but @Doc_cheilvenerdi.org released a Windows script Odinatrix which converts unheadered Tar to Ustar Tar. From this you can use some linux utils (i don't know if it works for converting backups, too)
1. unpack the Odinatrix-WINDOWS.zip file. copy the folder named "files" containing cygwin linux utils. rename the folder to bash (or any meaningful name)
2. create a new folder on Windows Desktop
3. move the backup files to <some folder>
4. open the Windows Command Prompt
goto Windows Start - Run...
type: %SystemRoot%\system32\cmd.exe - press OK
now type the following commands in Windows terminal console:
5. add bash folder to windows environment variable %PATH%
(example: PATH=%PATH%;C:\Program Files\bash)
Code:
PATH=%PATH%;<path to bash folder>
6. change directory and list backup files
Code:
cd %UserProfile%\Desktop\<some folder>
dir /a userdata*.backup*
7. cut off 512 byte header from each file using (cygwin) gnu "dd" linux util like @ektoric suggest in post #6.
do this for each file, skipping 512 bytes only (without unpacking). replace the wildcard * with <date>_<time>
Code:
dd if=userdata*.backup of=userdata*.part0 bs=512 skip=1
dd if=userdata*.backup1 of=userdata*.part1 bs=512 skip=1
dd if=userdata*.backup2 of=userdata*.part2 bs=512 skip=1
dd if=userdata*.backup3 of=userdata*.part3 bs=512 skip=1
8. merge the files with windows
Code:
copy /v /y userdata*.part0 /b + userdata*.part1 /b + userdata*.part2 /b + userdata*.part3 /b userdata*.img /b
9. try to mount the userdata*.img with OSFMount. if not working, try extracting with 7-zip.
Besides this linux is no hacker-os and just as easily operated as windows. You can boot a live distribution from usb-stick without installing.
for further questions, please visit the main thread
[Q] How to Extract data from .Backup file ? - Created with android system recovery

zelendel said:
What do you expect. You are trying to edit a Linux based file. Not to mention a closed sourced compressed file.
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Thank you for the answer!
Please comment next:
1) Video how to extract files from
"Linux based, Not to mention, a closed sourced compressed" backup file with metadata:
Распаковка и извлечение файлов из резервной копии - YouTube
m.youtube.com/watch?v=HNXed7RGR2g
2) quote from Android Backup Extractor's README-TXT-instruction:
"Usage:-- Windows: very easy"?
Android Backup Extractor - -- sourceforge.net/projects/adbextractor/files
-sourceforge.net/projects/adbextractor/reviews?source=navbar
I tried to use Android Backup Extractor In WinXp SP3
but windows version of this app shows cygwin&some other files missing.
Do you know why it doesn't work?
I don't need to recover backup on its own place.
My target is to extract and open few files: photos, videos, documents...
Strangely 7zip also doesn't work. Thank you in advance!

adbextractor is for adb backups *.ab only (btw open source).
cygwin is a implementation of linux utils running in windows.
the above solution uses cygwin, did you try?

aIecxs said:
adbextractor is for adb backups *.ab only (btw open source).
cygwin is a implementation of linux utils running in windows.
the above solution uses cygwin, did you try?
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Thank you for first very detailed answer!
It seems that you have a remarkable grasp of this subject,
that's why I ask you to comment my previous post about video and Android Backup Extractor.
Your second post is not clear for me: adbextractor is only for *.ab files??
I have few files cygwin, is it a separate program??
I attempted to run file start.exe - windows version of Android Backup Extractor with those few cygwin files
but unsuccessful.
I read and test a lot, but The problem is still unsettled.

i came up two years ago with same question, how to unpack, and ended up with learning linux. i have uploaded a bash script, but i don't know if it works. i am not a developer and still learning, and nobody give feedback.
what is exactly file name of your backup? suffix *.ab or *.backup? these are completely different, don't mix up tools.
if you mean userdata_20180313_161000.backup files, please try mini tut above beginning 1.

aIecxs said:
i came up two years ago with same question, how to unpack, and ended up with learning linux. ... i am not a developer and still learning
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It is classic aphorismic sentence!! I like it.
What's the bash script? for what goal? it is for Windows? If yes, I'll try it. give me the link.
my files are userdata_20100102_045926.backup, -=-=.backup1, 2, 3......
I'm not Englishman, "mini tut" is mini tutorial?
You have 100 posts and 25 thanks - super rate for notdeveloper.

the tool in video (adbextractor) can not unpack your backup. your backup is a splitted ext4 partition image. OSFMount can open ext4 partition images from Windows
bckp2cwm.sh script is basically doing the same steps like mini tutorial above. unfortunately it is for linux. main goal is convert userdata*.backup to cwm backup, but its paused in the middle (after unpacking, before repacking)
as windows user, all you need is a usb-stick. there is a tool unetbootin running in windows. it is a one-click-solution for downloading and copying any linux distribution to usb-stick. you can boot into linux from this usb-stick, for example ubuntu

aIecxs said:
OSFMount can open ext4 partition images from Windows
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OSFMount can extract few files from my backup?
Thank you very much for efficient advices!!!:highfive:
I'll try them in sequence.
although Linux is not my :angel:dream.

Solution for Windows
1. Download and install free hhd hex editor neo.
2. Open each of your .backup files, in select menu select range at 0 offset size 512 decimal, delete and save.
3. Use Windows copy command to join files as described in post#11 (Thanks to the author for free education).
4. Use any program that reads Linux disk image files. I used diskinternals (mount image from the drive menu first). Openext worked too.
This won't work on tar archives if I understand correctly. This took me days to figure out and only minutes to execute. No thanks to confusing android prompts while upgrading to a new OS.

yoyohelp said:
1. Download and install free hhd hex editor neo.
2. Open each of your .backup files, in select menu select range at 0 offset size 512 decimal, delete and save.
3. Use Windows copy command to join files as described in post#11 (Thanks to the author for free education).
4. Use any program that reads Linux disk image files. I used diskinternals (mount image from the drive menu first). Openext worked too.
This won't work on tar archives if I understand correctly. This took me days to figure out and only minutes to execute. No thanks to confusing android prompts while upgrading to a new OS.
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Hi i have a problem i have 5 files from the backup each with 2gb when i do the command from post 11 it works nice but when goes to backup part 3 it gives an error, what could it be? Im i doing something wrong?

[Completed] Unpacking and repacking system.img error

Hello, I'm trying to unpack and repack a system.img file using cygwin and the "simg2img" and "make_ext4fs" binary file. I am using cygwin because Linux is too much for VirtualBox and I have a bootcamped Mac so I don't have a lot of space on my Windows partition. My problem is when I run this: $./simg2img system.img sys.raw it returns with this -bash: ./simg2img: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error I really don't understand why this is happening and I checked the Ubuntu forums many times but I still cannot find anything.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588461
^^ Trying to follow that guide.
Thanks in advance

ethanscooter said:
Hello, I'm trying to unpack and repack a system.img file using cygwin and the "simg2img" and "make_ext4fs" binary file. I am using cygwin because Linux is too much for VirtualBox and I have a bootcamped Mac so I don't have a lot of space on my Windows partition. My problem is when I run this: $./simg2img system.img sys.raw it returns with this -bash: ./simg2img: cannot execute binary file: Exec format error I really don't understand why this is happening and I checked the Ubuntu forums many times but I still cannot find anything.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588461
^^ Trying to follow that guide.
Thanks in advance
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Hello,
Funny you mention that thread. Because this post is in it:
does any one knows how to do it on cygwin? can you give me a full detail of the steps on how to set this thing up in cygwin.
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cygwin cannot run native linux excute file without rebuild from source ~
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So. Time to look at the real problem. How can Linux be too much for Virtualbox when you can run a full Windows OS on the other side of bootcamp?
Linux doesn't have that serious of system requirements, especially if you skip the GUI. Skip Ubuntu for sure, in favour of Puppy Linux, Lubuntu or even Debian (with issuing the boot parameter - by pressing tab - and then typing "desktop=lxde" if you need to install a GUI at all). Do all of this in the Mac side of bootcamp where you will have more resources. Virtualbox should handle it well, even if it's a little slow.
Adapt as you go (e.g. RAM allocation can be as little as 64MB for console only, but in reality, squeeze out as much as you can afford to):
> App Development Forums > Development Tools > IDEs, Libraries, & Programming Tools > [GUIDE] VirtualBox Set-Up (MORE TO COME!)
Hope this helps, and good luck!

joel.maxuel said:
Hello,
Funny you mention that thread. Because this post is in it:
So. Time to look at the real problem. How can Linux be too much for Virtualbox when you can run a full Windows OS on the other side of bootcamp?
Linux doesn't have that serious of system requirements, especially if you skip the GUI. Skip Ubuntu for sure, in favour of Puppy Linux, Lubuntu or even Debian (with issuing the boot parameter - by pressing tab - and then typing "desktop=lxde" if you need to install a GUI at all). Do all of this in the Mac side of bootcamp where you will have more resources. Virtualbox should handle it well, even if it's a little slow.
Adapt as you go (e.g. RAM allocation can be as little as 64MB for console only, but in reality, squeeze out as much as you can afford to):
> App Development Forums > Development Tools > IDEs, Libraries, & Programming Tools > [GUIDE] VirtualBox Set-Up (MORE TO COME!)
Hope this helps, and good luck!
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Hello, I actually installed LINUX on actual hardware on another computer, my only problem was repacking the image I could not flash the repacked image which I have turned into a tar file with cygwin in ODIN it would fail. Also I meant it was too much because it was slow and I didn't have enough space thats why I mentioned the dualboot setup I only have 5gb free.

ethanscooter said:
Hello, I actually installed LINUX on actual hardware on another computer, my only problem was repacking the image I could not flash the repacked image which I have turned into a tar file with cygwin in ODIN it would fail. Also I meant it was too much because it was slow and I didn't have enough space thats why I mentioned the dualboot setup I only have 5gb free.
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I would avoid cygwin at all steps. It's only good for routine commands (I used to use it to do "ls -lR" dumps of my CD archives), not for special projects. NTFS is a whole different beast than ext4, and it sounds like the permissions you have vs. the permissions you are supposed to get don't match up. So Odin is refusing to cooperate.
Good news that you have a different computer to run GNU/Linux on. FWIW, the missing information was how much disk space was left on the OSX end of things, which is why I suggested VirtualBox "on the Mac side".
Back to the drawing board, but it looks like you have the resources to get something successful this time.
If not, and Linux was used in all the steps, can always sort out the problem in the guide you originally linked by asking there.
Hope this helps.