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nandushines

Member

Registered: 2010-10-29

Posts: 5

Problems extracting .bin file from .zip file

Hi Arch Forums,

I face a very strange problem.
The firmware of my MP3 player is packaged as a zip file. This zip file contains some files with the 'bin' extension.

I extract this zip file using the unzip tool and use the resulting bin files to upgrade my MP3 player (just plain copy via USB, no fancy flash-ware). This results in boot problems and video problems on my Mp3 player.
However if I use 7-zip on Windows XP to extract and upgrade, my MP3 player works properly!

Now what do I suspect?

1. .bin files on different partition types? NTFS Vs Ext3.
2. the unzip tool
3. USB driver transmission error for bin files?

Thank you for throwing light on this.

ewaller

Administrator

From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 19,789

Re: Problems extracting .bin file from .zip file

I would start by doing an md5sum on the extracted bin files on both OSes.  I know there are versions for Windows on the net.
This will determine if the files are the same in both places.

You could also through it on a thumb drive under windows, mount it under Linux and then do the MD5 on the file on the thumbdrive.

My money is on door number 3.  How, exactly, do you send the file over USB?

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