pete_c
Guru
You shouldn't have to redo the partitions on your USB/SD drive. Two ways I've done it though. Fastest but further away (Linux boxes are in the "server" rack is to just plug in the USB SD card into the Linux box or faster on my little Asus Netbook. Via XP though I use a Windows program called Easeus Partition Master to create the Linux partitions on the USB SD dongle. The program looks oddly like Partition Magic (which also worked but only with USB to IDE drive). For me its much faster than doing the FDISK partition set up with a command prompt. Takes a minute or two to create the ext2/ext3 and swap drive. You can even snapshot it with this program if you want.
BTW the IDE to USB boot works a bit faster than the USB 16 Gb microSD boot of Debian. But looking for that small footprint right now.
Before booting to the external USB I checked that the Dockstar would boot fine without it. Really just the edit of the boot file so it doesn't boot into Pogo...
BTW the IDE to USB boot works a bit faster than the USB 16 Gb microSD boot of Debian. But looking for that small footprint right now.
Before booting to the external USB I checked that the Dockstar would boot fine without it. Really just the edit of the boot file so it doesn't boot into Pogo...
Code:
root@ICS-Dockstar:/etc/samba# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 14G 520M 13G 4% /
none 60M 32K 60M 1% /dev
/dev/sda1 14G 520M 13G 4% /
tmpfs 62M 0 62M 0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs 62M 0 62M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 62M 0 62M 0% /tmp
Code:
top - 15:26:05 up 2:24, 1 user, load average: 0.07, 0.04, 0.00
Tasks: 43 total, 1 running, 41 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie
Cpu(s): 0.7%us, 0.0%sy, 0.0%ni, 99.3%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 125732k total, 108468k used, 17264k free, 3952k buffers
Swap: 1172736k total, 0k used, 1172736k free, 83816k cached