Ste Packaging

Apple’s 1.1.1 firmware is much larger than 1.0.2 was. That leaves much less space for installing 3rd-party applications. Couple that with the fact the Installer.app 3.0 doesn’t tell you how much free space you have left, and you have a recipe for disaster. Additionally, I found that by default, you cannot have more than 80 application directories in /Applications, or the SpringBoard crashes and will not start. What’s a person to do? Well, I don’t know what you will do, but this is what I did (Note: if you screw up your iPhone, I take no responsibility):

1. I installed SummerBoard, which allows for more than 80 application directories in /Applications
2. I remounted the Media partition without the noexec option, moved my entire /Applications directory to /var/root/Applications, and made /Applications a symbolic link that points to private/var/root/Applications.

Item #1 is simple to do: just install it from within Installer.app. Item #2 requires a little more explanation. What follows is a little tutorial on how I did it. This tutorial assumes you know how to ssh into your iPhone and that you can do so. It also assumes you know how to edit files on your iPhone and that you have basic command line skills. If these assumptions are wrong, don’t attempt this (and don’t ask me for help - I’m way too busy). First, remove the “noexec” option from the Media partition, and remount it. Note: this step may not be needed, as some of the recent jailbreak procedures remove it for you.

• ssh into your iPhone
• edit /etc/fstab
• change the second line to change “rw,noexec” to “rw”

When you are done, the second line should look like this: /dev/disk0s2 /private/var hfs rw 0 2 Now power your iPhone off and back on again, before proceeding. Now we’ll move the Applications directory:

1. ssh into your iPhone
2. cd /
3. cp -pr Applications /var/root
4. mv Applications Applications.old
5. ln -s private/var/root/Applications /Applications

Now power your iPhone off and back on again. If everything is working ok, finish up by doing this:

1. ssh into your iPhone
2. cd /
3. rm -rf Applications.old

Now install all the apps you want. :) Note: A few packages still get installed into the root partition, but there is plenty of room for those, at this time. The vast majority go in Applications though, which now has plenty of room. Enjoy!

Final note: I haven’t tried this, but if you restore your iPhone, the root partition gets wiped and recreated. What this means is that the /Applications symbolic link will be replaced by a new, real /Applications directory, with the default Apple apps in it. You should be able to redo everything above, except for step #3 (where you copy /Applications), to recover, and all your applications will be back - because they are on a partition that doesn’t get wiped during a restore. Note, however, that a handful of apps do install a few files outside of /Applications and those files will have been lost. A few examples of apps that do this are: Ants, Dock, OpenSSH, BSD Subsystem, and others. You will have to reinstall them to get them working again. If all else fails, you can always 1) restore 2) delete /var/root/Applications and 3) start fresh. Apparently, during a restore, unlike during an upgrade, everything gets wiped. Just repeat the steps above, before you start reinstalling all your apps and you’ll be fine.

-ste

You need to open Installer.app, go to the Install page, then the System category, and install the “BSD Subsystem” package. It contains a library (/usr/lib/libarmfp.dylib) that is needed by the vast majority of the applications you will want to install, though they do not explicitly require you to install it. You really do need to though.

Note: this is not a problem with jailbreakme.com - it’s just a common problem I’m seeing reported by people who went there and then didn’t install the BSD Subsystem package afterwards.

Update: ‘drudge’, one of the creators of jailbreakme.com, has just added that library to the list of things that gets installed when you go to that site and jailbreak your 1.1.1 iPhone, so this shouldn’t be an issue anymore. Any other packages that need additional parts of the BSD Subsystem generally require you to install it first.

-ste