Thread: Installing software on MMC
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andymulhearn is offline andymulhearn
2005-11-15 , 22:00
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#5
Originally Posted by pycage
Applications are installed into /var/lib/install to not mess up with the rest of the system. It should be possible to make this a symlink pointing to somewhere on the MMC. The filesystem on the MMC, however, is a dumb FAT and the card is mounted with noexec flag.

I did not try it, but I'm sure that by reformatting the MMC and modifying /etc/fstab, you could install applications on the MMC.
I did find a link where this something like this was discussed but it involved hardcore geekery and building your own versions of fdisk so I walked away at that point.