Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-28 Thread arne anka
but when I run './install all' I still get: Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.done doesn't sound good. if I try './install mount' I get: [errors] well, w/o superblocks mounting doesn't work Also, if I just end up

Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-28 Thread Fox Mulder
arne anka wrote: secondly, the installer assumes ext2 imo, since etx3 is not recommended for sd card. That sounds interesting. I partitioned my 8gb sd-card to use ext3 for the rootfs and added an extra bootmenu entry for ext3. But why is ext3 not recommended for sd-card when compared to

Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-28 Thread arne anka
But why is ext3 not recommended for sd-card when compared to ext2? i understood ist because of the additional wear caused by journalling. I played with debian on my sd card for over a week without any problems so far concerning the sd-card. I hope i must not backup my rootfs and reformat it

Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-28 Thread Fox Mulder
arne anka wrote: But why is ext3 not recommended for sd-card when compared to ext2? i understood ist because of the additional wear caused by journalling. I played with debian on my sd card for over a week without any problems so far concerning the sd-card. I hope i must not backup my

Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-28 Thread Pietro m0nt0 Montorfano
arne anka ha scritto: But why is ext3 not recommended for sd-card when compared to ext2? i understood ist because of the additional wear caused by journalling. Yes, in most cases ext3 is used improperly: ext3 is basically ext2+journal. This means that you are going to add some overhead to

Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-27 Thread Greg Bonett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stefan Fröbe wrote: Depends on what you call straight-forward: you can search for glamo_mci.sd_max_clk , a description can for instance be found at http://docs.openmoko.org/trac/ticket/1743 : Basically you need to set this variable in the

Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-22 Thread Greg Bonett
I found that lowering the glamo MMC clock by a factor of 1/2 repeatedly, until I found a stable clock speed, worked fine for me. I'm not sure how to do that. Is it pretty straight forward? Thanks. -Greg ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-21 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 21.08.2008, 15:48 -0500 schrieb Greg Bonett: Unfortunately I'm working with the 512mb SD card that came with my FR (install.sh had trouble partitioning my 4gb SDHC) so I haven't been able to install too many aps Actually, the install.sh should be able to handle that as

Swap Space was Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-21 Thread clare johnstone
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Joachim Breitner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Actually, the install.sh should be able to handle that as well, at least theoretically. What problems did you have? Greetings, Joachim When the installer partitions the disk, why does it not supply a swap

Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-21 Thread Greg Bonett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joachim Breitner wrote: Hi, Am Donnerstag, den 21.08.2008, 15:48 -0500 schrieb Greg Bonett: Unfortunately I'm working with the 512mb SD card that came with my FR (install.sh had trouble partitioning my 4gb SDHC) so I haven't been able to