Thread: Introducing console-tools v1 (install-tools replacemement)
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FRZ is offline FRZ
2009-02-16 , 20:47
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#156
Originally Posted by penguinbait View Post
So if you boot to Flash and set the swap for the external SD Boot it does not work? Its probably best to run all operations against boot from SD partition while booted to flash.

As far as the FAT partition. Maemo expects a FAT partition to be there, so I always put one. If you connect to an USB it could cause you problems. I always keep it. Also application manager uses it and other things. For compatibility sake and to save from troubleshooting, I would keep a small partition, 16-32MB minimum. Its your choice though.
Yes, I use pb to enable swap on flash boot and it works fine. I use pb to enable swap on SD boot but, doesn't work. On SD boot pb report to have enabling swap successfully when initiated but, in fact did not. I instead used mkswap and swapon on SD boot at start up to enable swap.

As far as the FAT partition goes, I can see my external card when connected to usb to PC. I can view, copy and transfer files to it so I think I am good with that.
Last edited by FRZ; 2009-02-16 at 20:51.