Hi Luism, On 2/5/15, 11:19 AM, "L.M." <[email protected]> wrote:
>I received the Max Dual core in September and hadn¹t have the >opportunity to work on it until now (Health issues). I don't want to >brick the board, so I left the uefi update until I finish my experiments. > >Plugged a SanDisk 256GB SSD to the USB3 port and installed CentOS 7 on >it. (Need to get a connector for J2 to be able to use the SSD with the >SATA port as I understand the SSD only requires 5 Volts). After much >toiling, I have been able to get it working with the MATE Desktop >environment (http://jensd.be/?p=125). Got Oracle's Java 8 also working. > >I would like to understand a bit more the file system of the >installation. Right now, the system tells me that the only device is a >USB stick if I plug one in, but the SSD is treated a part of the >computer system. Always helpful to provide output as it avoids confusion from interpretation. What is the output of: $ mount It sounds like you connected an SSD to a USB enclosure and are using it via USB mass storage. > >I did not partition the SSD during installation, but now I find the disk >split 200GB/50GB with the big chunk used for the only user I have This sounds like either: 1) You chose an automatic installation which partitioned it for you or the SSD may have come pre-partitioned. > >implemented and the rest for root. Can anyone point to me where in the > >documentation I can learn more about this? Also, the SSD does not show >under devices. The only device I see right now is a USB stick I have >plugged in the USB port. > >I'm not a big expert on OSs nor Computer Architecture, but enough to be >dangerous sometimes. I'm trying to understand this behaviour and as I >said, if someone knows where to read about this, and learn more about >the interaction of the Max architecture with the Linux OS. The questions you're asking are not Minnow specific and you may find a better response from the CentOS community support. -- Darren Hart Intel Open Source Technology Center _______________________________________________ elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list [email protected] http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard
