On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:38 PM, dmatthews.org <m...@dmatthews.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:49:43 +0100 > Davide Scaini <dsca...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > For Android to work properly the Micro SD Card in your FreeRunner needs > to > > have 2 primary partitions. The first needs to be a VFAT/MSDOS (16 or 32) > > partition which is used is mounted as '/sdcard', this is used as a > storage > > area (for pictures, movies, music, etc). The second is an ext3 partition > > which Android mounts as '/data', this is where it stores settings, > caches, > > etc. > > > > Experience has shown that sizing these at a ratio of 3 to 1 works best. > So > > if you have a 4GB card make a 3GB vfat partition and a 1GB ext3 partion. > > Interestingly my android install does not seem to use the ext3 partition - > looks like I wasted some sdcard space making that? > > This is an install from ran's cupcake image:- > > # mount > rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0 > tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0 > devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0 > proc /proc proc rw 0 0 > sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0 > tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0 > /dev/block/mtdblock6 /system jffs2 ro 0 0 > /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard vfat > rw,nosuid,nodev,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1 > 0 0 > /dev/block/mtdblock7 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0 > > > I reply directly to you because our mate dehqan seems nervous... in http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/wiki/GetIt they write: *Note* Users have reported that it is also possible to install Android by making a single partition formatted as VFAT/MSDOS. I have no other ideas :P > > -- > David Matthews > m...@dmatthews.org > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community >
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