Reflashing, and kind of lost with the comands

Question

first of all thank you cpitchford for getting me the os and emmc image, and now everything is set to reflash, i'm a bit lost should i start the commands with flasher-3.5.exe or just flasher-3.5  ???
and now this is my first reflash, ( tried nsu a couple of times to reintsall the software) , so should type the -r in the command or not, and what difference does it makes ?? , please i need quick replies .
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Answer 1

if youre using windows, i think either is fine. normally, i just do
flasher-3.5.exe -F os.bin -f
replace os.bin with the name of the os image (i find it easier to just rename it to os.bin to begin with rather than reallylongfilenamethatidontwanttoscrewup.bin, lol) then shut down phone, hold the u button, then connect to computer whilst still holding u button. then it should boot into update mode, which is nokia logo and usb logo. then if youre in 32bit windows or windows xp mode, it will auto detect (in windows xp mode for 64bit windows, you need to click attach and choose the n900), then the flasher should proceed.
then when its done, type in
flasher-3.5.exe -F emmc.bin -f -R
replace emmc.bin with the name of the emmc file (once again, easier to just have renamed it to emmc.bin to begin with) it should reboot the device and proceed to flash the image.
make sure you dont put in the '-R' command on the os flash, as the -R is for reboot, and you do not want it to reboot after flashing the os image.
note if it freezes on the emmc flash, dont worry about it. just boot up the device and run it without flashing the emmc. it froze for me on the emmc flash, and yet it still runs perfectly fine.
note 2 flashing the emmc.bin file will wipe out all data. so backup first!