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 t

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

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

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 ext

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 u

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 u-

Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-22 Thread Stefan Fröbe
> > 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? > Depends on what you call straight-forward: you can search for glamo_mci.sd_max_clk , a des

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 c

Re: Partitioning 4GB with the Debian Installer

2008-08-21 Thread Asheesh Laroia
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008, Greg Bonett wrote: > Alright, here it is... > Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: > Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.done I saw that too! > Warning, had trouble writing out superblocks.done I saw *that*, too! (-; I found that lowering t

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 >> t

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 sw

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 a