Originally Posted by gohan2091

Duke Nukem 3D is a good example of an application/game that asks you where you want the files installed. It is not a shortcut, it's the whole thing. I have Duke Nukem installed on my microSD card, so it is possible, yes. I also installed Debian I think it's called, it came with Open Office, Firefox (Iceweasel), Gimp and all other things, this also asked me what location to install.

I don't see why someone can't prompt this message up everytime the N810 tries to install a file. If this cannot be done, I will have to do some of the ways suggested here, but it seems like such a pain to do.

Originally Posted by sjgadsby

Some games, such as that one, ask where to locate their data files. The program still lives in the internal storage though.

Programs on the tablets can't run from flash memory cards that are formatted to work with Windows, as most are. Programs can use data files on those flash cards though.



Easy Debian installs a huge data file on a flash memory card, and that data file holds all the programs it runs. It's essentially a virtual hard drive in a file, a special, roundabout trick that lets the tablets do some things they otherwise couldn't. The programs that make up Easy Debian itself and pull off the trick though, they live in the internal storage.

Originally Posted by BrentDC

Actually, Easy Debian's programs are in the image file/partition, only the home directory (for config files mostly) and /media/* are mounted.

Originally Posted by sjgadsby

[...]I was just trying to avoid getting bogged down in unnecessary technical detail.