Re: [neovento] nand space workaround?
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Staley, Daniel L dlst...@uky.edu wrote: I recently installed neovento, and I like what has been done! However, because I flashed the neovento image to the nand, I am running pretty low on space for installing new packages (And with the debian repos open to me...it is surely quick to fill!) My initial idea was to copy my /usr to the uSD card and then just mount it on boot. I also looked at the mhddfs package (seems pretty neatnot sure if it would work well here or not) But then i wondered if there was an easier waysurely someone has run into this already? What other ways have people got around the internal nand size limitation? (Besides just installing the whole thing on the uSD card) Hi Daniel, What I did was make a directory on /mnt/sdcard which neovento has already mounted it is the first partition on the card, named it cache and then set up directories under it to match those in /var/cache then change /var/cache to /var/was-cache (a habit I keep originals) then sit in /var and ln -s /mnt/sdcard/cache I had actually done it before and had a good collection of debs downloaded earlier, and after setting it up like that again i did an apt-get update and then installed a couple of things especially less and apt-utils and man-db, it got the debs out of the cache - very satisfactory. cheers, clare Also, does anyone have experience with mhddfs and could comment on if it would work welll here? Thanks, -Dan Staley ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
[neovento] nand space workaround?
I recently installed neovento, and I like what has been done! However, because I flashed the neovento image to the nand, I am running pretty low on space for installing new packages (And with the debian repos open to me...it is surely quick to fill!) My initial idea was to copy my /usr to the uSD card and then just mount it on boot. I also looked at the mhddfs package (seems pretty neatnot sure if it would work well here or not) But then i wondered if there was an easier waysurely someone has run into this already? What other ways have people got around the internal nand size limitation? (Besides just installing the whole thing on the uSD card) Also, does anyone have experience with mhddfs and could comment on if it would work welll here? Thanks, -Dan Staley ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [neovento] nand space workaround?
What's the reason not to just copy it completely on the µsd ? There will be a tar.gz rootfs soon. Dan Staley wrote: I recently installed neovento, and I like what has been done! However, because I flashed the neovento image to the nand, I am running pretty low on space for installing new packages (And with the debian repos open to me...it is surely quick to fill!) My initial idea was to copy my /usr to the uSD card and then just mount it on boot. I also looked at the mhddfs package (seems pretty neatnot sure if it would work well here or not) But then i wondered if there was an easier waysurely someone has run into this already? What other ways have people got around the internal nand size limitation? (Besides just installing the whole thing on the uSD card) Also, does anyone have experience with mhddfs and could comment on if it would work welll here? Thanks, -Dan Staley ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/-neovento--nand-space-workaround--tp2885226p2886194.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [neovento] nand space workaround?
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 3:54 AM, neovento schumi_8_2...@gmx.de wrote: What's the reason not to just copy it completely on the µsd ? There will be a tar.gz rootfs soon. Good!, thank you. clare - who thinks Neovento the best she has tried, and that was the previous version :) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [neovento] nand space workaround?
This will be done by my fellow Jensss, I'm curious about when that will happen. ^^ clare johnstone wrote: Good!, thank you. clare - who thinks Neovento the best she has tried, and that was the previous version :) Then it's likely that you will be happy with the recent version. It's much better than the best you tried :) -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/-neovento--nand-space-workaround--tp2885226p2887342.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: [neovento] nand space workaround?
On Wed, 13 May 2009 13:10:03 -0400
Staley, Daniel L dlst...@uky.edu wrote:
I recently installed neovento, and I like what has been done!
However, because I flashed the neovento image to the nand, I am
running pretty low on space for installing new packages (And with the
debian repos open to me...it is surely quick to fill!) My initial
idea was to copy my /usr to the uSD card and then just mount it on
boot. I also looked at the mhddfs package (seems pretty neatnot
sure if it would work well here or not)
But then i wondered if there was an easier waysurely someone has
run into this already? What other ways have people got around the
internal nand size limitation? (Besides just installing the whole
thing on the uSD card)
Also, does anyone have experience with mhddfs and could comment on if
it would work welll here?
Thanks,
-Dan Staley
Does it use opkg to install packages? If so, try adding dest
sd /media/card to /etc/opkg/opkg.conf, then use opkg -d sd install
{opkgname}. The default opkg.conf just has dest root / but you can
define other destinations with dest {name} {path}. I'm assuming that
enough of the original ipkg code remains that it would correctly install
using /media/card/ in place of /, and symlink where necessary.
(I've not tested)
dpkg offers --instdir and --root options, but AFAIK it doesn't ensure
that the result is accessible. ($PATH, configs, etc)
j
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Re: [neovento] nand space workaround?
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 12:21 AM, Joel Newkirk freerun...@newkirk.us wrote: On Wed, 13 May 2009 13:10:03 -0400 Staley, Daniel L dlst...@uky.edu wrote: I recently installed neovento, and I like what has been done! However, because I flashed the neovento image to the nand, I am running pretty low on space for installing new packages (And with the debian repos open to me...it is surely quick to fill!) My initial Hi, it has apt-get. I cant do it just now but previously, as it already has mounted the first partition of the sdcard as /mnt/sdcard, I put just the cache part of /etc/apt on the card and it then wrote lots of things there quite happily. I hope it is as easy to do on this new version. I will try tonight. clare ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
