On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:10 AM, Mitch Bradley <w...@laptop.org> wrote:
> b) If you must construct a fixed partition layout for use on multiple > different devices, align each partition on at least a 4MiB boundary. > That means that you "waste" 4M for the partition map (one 512-byte > sector padded out to a 4 MiB boundary, but oh well). For devices 2 GiB > or less - the previous generation - maybe 1 MiB alignment would be okay, > as such devices are likely to have smaller erase blocks. Those numbers > seem "safe" to me. 1. Do the F11 / SoaS "overwrite your USB/SD device" XO images follow this guideline? cat soas??xo.2gremovable.tar.lzma | lzma -dc - | tar xf - -O > /dev/sdX (The way a boot image is created and distributed as multiple monolithic 379+ MB files seems crazy -- surely it's just a collection of files, tweaks to the existing MBR, and some disk partitioning and FS layout requirements. But that's a different discussion. ;-) ) 2. The old Fedora 10 on XO project specifically recommended SanDisk Extreme III SD cards. Can anyone suggest generally-good brands of USB flash drives? (I have a cheap USB flash drive that has "gone crazy" after two /dev/sdb reblastings; often usb-creator leaves it in a bizarre state and dosfsck reports hundreds of errors it can't repair. Weird.) Thanks for all you do! -- =S Page _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
