On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, ervin wrote: > I'm pxe booting ubuntu dapper 6.06 to a Soekris 4501 (64MB RAM & 1GB > Compact Flash card) ... dhcp, tftp and the server install is running > smoothly until I want to write the partitioning to the CF card .... > > I tried guided and manual partitioning .... same issue, which is: > ---------------------------- issue > ------------------------------------------------- > The attempt to mount a file system with type swap in IDE1 master, | > | partition #5 (hda5) at none failed. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > I made tests on different CF card 1GB & 4GB and from both Sandisk & > IBM ... no difference. > > My manual partitions: > > 200 MB / > 100 MB swap > 350 MB /usr > 350 MB /var
I'm a BSD person, so I won't speculate on exactly what's going on, but it seems like this is protecting you from your own folly. Swap is the last thing you want on a flash disk. Flash has a limited number of writes before it degrades. ISTR that the spec for write cycles in in the 100s of thousands, which is fine for a digital camera, but a swap partition will chew through that in no time. Suggest you find a HOWTO specifically for a flash filesystem, which you will probably find has no swap at all. If you really need to have virtual memory for your application, you could consider a CF format microdrive, or an IDE laptop drive. -Jed _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
