Thread: Help to dot one's i's and cross one's t's on booting from a flash card
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josiahg777 is offline josiahg777
2008-07-19 , 22:49
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Originally Posted by Gomez View Post
1) Is this, starting from # sfdisk one command or i must hit return after every line?
Yes and no. When you type "sfdisk /dev/mmcblk0" the tablet will then bring up
Code:
/dev/mmcblk0p1:
And then you have to type in the numbers and commas shown then hit return, and it will bring up the next line.

2) Why so much space for linux partition? I want to install no more than one system on flash card. Not bigger than 2007HE.
How can i repartition my 2 Gb MMC if i want to leave maximum space for FAT (for films and books)?
Most people clone their OS to the SD card because they want more space to install applications.

The numbers refer to 32kb "blocks" of memory. So if you wanted 256mb for the OS and the rest for the FAT system you would use the following numbers:
Code:
/dev/mmcblk0p1:1,8000,6
/dev/mmcblk0p2:8001,,
/dev/mmcblk0p3:
/dev/mmcblk0p4:
3) Why zero-size unformatted partitions 3 and 4?
The first partition is for your operating system. The second partition is the FAT memory card and will show up in your file manager as "internal memory card" You should be able to partition p3 and p4 as well... but there's no point really unless you want to run more operating systems.

Hope this helps a little bit!
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