Help in Android 1.6 font hacking

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There are blogs suggesting the renaming of a desired font as DroidSansFallback and replacing the default droidsansfallback in /system/fonts will make android render an unsupported language.
I rooted my xperia mini using universalandroidroot. But am still not clear about how to replace the fonts in mini.
Or I cant even get a terminal emulator work in the device.
How can I move on? Any help?
 
export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
$ $ su
# export PATH=/data/local/bin:$PATH
# mv -rf /sdcard/fonts/DroidSansFallback.ttf /system/fonts
failed on '-rf' - Cross-device link
#
This is what happens when I try to do this
 
Here is some data from internet about how to change font in android without font management tools, hope it could help:

This HOWTO talks about how to change the default fonts in Android mobile without any font management tool. The system fonts are available in /system/fonts directory. DroidSans.ttf is the main font used in most of the applications. Overwriting the fonts in this directory with your fonts will change the fonts in the Android mobile.

This involves two steps. One is to get the /system/fonts directory in read-write mode and another one is transferring your fonts to /system/fonts directory.

1. Make /system/fonts with read-write permission. Follow my previous post of Mounting /system partition in read-write mode in Android to get it done.

2. Backup the existing fonts and copy the new fonts using adb tool. Here # is the adb root prompt.

# mv /system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf /system/fonts/DroidSans_org.ttf

Repeat the above command for the fonts you are going to overwrite as a backup.

# exit

$ exit

C:\android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1\tools>adb push c:\downloads\fonts\myfont.ttf /system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf
1145 KB/s (0 bytes in 73292.000s)

The above command will copy the new fonts. Repeat this command for all the fonts you want to overwrite.

C:\android-sdk-windows-1.1_r1\tools>adbshell

$ su

# reboot

Once your mobile rebooted, you can see your shining new fonts.
 
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