It seems I finally maxed out the internal storage. I bought a 1G card a few weeks ago, and was going to follow the destructions on moving the file system to the mmc. now it's really time.

running ubuntu under vmware on windows, it sees the disk being inserted
"new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3" (the address number always changes).
I can see it has been mounted under /proc/bus/usb. I can see the devices file and 001 and 003, etc.

I've searched forums and such, and I keep seeing references to the usb drive being mounted as a scsi device, but I see no such reference in the dmesg. this happens on both the mmc and a regular thumb drive. I really don't know which module I need to modprobe/insmod.

I used sfdisk (on the 770) to create 2 partitions on the mmc (one at 100meg, just for simple file xfer via usb, if needed, and the remaining 900 for the file system and swap file).

So... now... how do i actually mkfs.ext2? I copied it from the scratchbox devkit (yes, the armel version), and got a dependency error (i believe, i don't recall at the moment).

I tried even using a liveCD of gnoppix, and but still got the same issues above of seeing a uhci but not a scsi disk.

help? please? I've been digging at this for almost 24hrs now.. so I'm sure I'm overlooking something small and stupid, so please forgive me.