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Hi,
I've followed the process and have now booted the latest 2008 from my 8GB internal card. However, the other partition, which should presumably have ended up formatted as FAT is not accessible. I did elect to create the first partition with only ~1GB space, leaving the rest to the root filesystem, but I can't set up swap memory on the internal drive and assume that the FAT partition must exist for this to work.

Unfortunately, my SD reader on my Ubuntu box can't read the SDHC card (I didn't try before putting 2008 on it, so I don't know f that is why, but assume that it is just too old to support SDHC), so I'm stuck with sorting it out on the N800.

Anyway, I eventually tried using File Manager on the N800 to format the Internal Memory Card, which is initially displayed with a Repair option, but it will not format, as the card (presumably the first 1GB partition) is apparently in use.

As I was typing this, I swapped the card into the external slot and went for a format with File Manager, half expecting the worst, and not being at all surprised to find that the whole card got formatted and not just the 1GB partition.

So, I've got to follow the process again, which is no biggy, but want to avoid being stuck with no swap. I'm not immediately bothered by the loss of 1GB space, so would welcome suggestions as to how I can format the 1GB partition with FAT and avoid the problem, or deal with the swap in a different fashion.

Please consider that a quick response might catch me before I've finished doing the process again in the hope that I can sort out the issues afterwards.

Cheers.
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