Move OS to the internal/external memory
 

Hi, i'm new, and i need some help.
I want to move the whole OS to one of the flash cards (internal or external, i still haven't decided yet) for many space for the applications, and i already read the board and found this tutorial (http://wiki.maemo.org/Booting_from_a_flash_card), but i still have some doubts about it, which i'm reporting.
1) Why do i have to create 2 partitions on the internal card? In the tutorial it creates one of about 480 mb and another of about 1.5 gb (speaking of the internal flash...) Why can't i have just one big 2GB partition?

2) By following exactly every step of the tutorial shown, i will be CLONING my actual system to the internal memory? That's what i wanna do: clone my actual system (with the applications, datas, and documents) on the internal memory. Or do i have to make a backup, migrate the system and then use the backup to ripristinate it?

3) If i use the procedure shown in the tutorial above, will i be seeing the boot loader or there is a way to tell him that i want to load the internal memory OS instead of the flash one?

Thanks to everyone in advance,

Best Regards.

Re: Move OS to the internal/external memory
 

I'm also thinking of doing this. Why not create a "big" / partition on one of the MMC cards, no hassle with mounts or optification, and boot from there.
Maybe use the fast memory for extra swap or read/write intensive stuff like /var or /tmp. Has anyone used this sort of setup?

Re: Move OS to the internal/external memory
 

Maybe quite OT but year or so I was able to find info how to do this manually.
Right now there are complete scripts with instructions how to use them.
To get to know what it's all about I have to reverse the knowledge from the scripst :(
(I don't like automagical tools for such operations).

Re: Move OS to the internal/external memory
 

What do You mean by "fast memory"...
We only have IntMMC & ExtMMC. Both comparably slow.
There's no other place where we can put swapfile.

Re: Move OS to the internal/external memory
 

Some step by step guide here, for people wants to do it 'the old fashion way', http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=29135

Of course there is Penguinbait's automagic tools, http://penguinbait.com/, I used it several times, and it works good
and there is an encyclopedia cooked up by GeraldKO, and there is wiki as OP cited.

I think cloning to the MMC is the best/fun/useful on this tablet, it allows almost unlimited app installation, and backup 2 times, post back if questions

bun

Re: Move OS to the internal/external memory
 

Wait a sec, i think we're losing focus of the initial topic.
I want to clonate my actual OS which is on the internal flash memory, to the internal memory card.
Now, i don't understand: isn't there a way to do it easy?
Like if we had a function clonetointMMC(), that clone my flash to the int mmc e start booting my system from there...
Bun, do u have such a script?
Or, a tutorial to do this? if this was a normal PC, i'll just put on another hd, copy the contents of the flash memory on that one, set the bootloader right and be done...
I hope i've explained myself.
Thanks for all the answers guys!

Re: Move OS to the internal/external memory
 

Actually, I thought that bunanson's answer was spot on what you needed. If that wasn't what you needed, then maybe it would help if you could clarify what questions you have that weren't answered by his post?