On 4 June 2010 19:35, Daniel Case <danielcas...@googlemail.com> wrote: > With your original question, it is possible to use the partition which > stores everything. > > It is located on: > /dev/mmcblk0p4
I is not a good idea to use it as 'swap' space though is it? I understood that using flash for swap was not a good idea as it wears it out by writing to it often. Flash has a limited life in terms of write cycles. Colin > > On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> On 4 June 2010 17:24, Dave Hanson <d.han...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >>> Message: 1 >>> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:47:01 +0100 >>> From: Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> >>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My >>> success and a quick question please! >>> To: UK Ubuntu Talk <ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> >>> Message-ID: >>> <aanlktinizoxqromfxhublxskdo80egdsqvd-unpvw...@mail.gmail.com> >>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >>> >>> On 4 June 2010 15:42, Dave Hanson <d.han...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>> For those of you trying without any luck to get the O2 Joggler running >>>> Ubuntu, I have had success with a Black HP 4GB USB (from PC World, Leeds >>>> ?9.99) and by using the image linked below, it works a lot smoother than >>>> the >>>> Netbook Remix image that is floating around, and leaves enough space on the >>>> disk to upgrade to Lucid (3 and a half hours wait mind - 2 1/2 to go!). >>>> >>> >>> Good luck with that! I haven't seen anyone run Lucid successfully on >>> the Joggler. >>> >>> Be prepared to get a black screen, console or nothing when you reboot to >>> lucid. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Al. >>> >>> Cheers Al - Yeah it failed, i got a load of messages like this....... >>> >>> [134315.948864] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443 >>> [134395.949568] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443 >>> [134495.948082] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 5(5) BSS returned, data->length = 591 >>> [134615.949559] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443 >>> [134735.949344] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443 >>> [134855.949462] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443 >>> [134975.948163] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443 >>> >>> Oh well - Time to start again. >> >> If you look at Dysentry's thread on his UNR version he explains why >> lucid is a problem, a problem with some driver not available yet if I >> remember correctly. I am using that version successfully (his 1.3a >> with the mods in the first post of his thread). I do a dump of the >> usb stick occasionally (using dd) so that if an update or whatever >> mucks it up I can restore my previous working version rather than >> going back to the start each time. >> >> I have not tried the non unr version so I cannot comment on the relative >> speed. >> >> Colin >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >> > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
