Partitioning N900's memory card
So i was preparing Atiezul's MicroSD card for instaling NitDroid on her N900.
Just some reminder for me self on partitioning N900 memory card.
Hope this help someone.
I had gotten meself a 8GB MicroSD. The settings i wanted was 5GB Linux parttiton (ext3) and balance of 3GB Fat (vfat?). Below the things i done:
References:
http://talk.maemo.org/archive/index.php/t-62826.html
http://www.myn900.com/how-to-install-android-nitdroid-to-n900/
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=22561
/alak
Just some reminder for me self on partitioning N900 memory card.
Hope this help someone.
I had gotten meself a 8GB MicroSD. The settings i wanted was 5GB Linux parttiton (ext3) and balance of 3GB Fat (vfat?). Below the things i done:
Nokia-N900:~# umount /media/mmc1 Nokia-N900:~# sfdisk -uM /dev/mmcblk1 << EOF > ,5000,L > ,2647,D > ,,L > ,, > EOF Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK Disk /dev/mmcblk1: 244704 cylinders, 4 heads, 16 sectors/track Old situation: Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End MiB #blocks Id System /dev/mmcblk1p1 0+ 4999 5000- 5119999+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/mmcblk1p2 5000 7646 2647 2710528 d Unknown /dev/mmcblk1p3 0 - 0 0 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk1p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty New situation: Units = mebibytes of 1048576 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 Device Boot Start End MiB #blocks Id System /dev/mmcblk1p1 0+ 4999 5000- 5119999+ 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk1p2 5000 7646 2647 2710528 d Unknown /dev/mmcblk1p3 0 - 0 0 83 Linux /dev/mmcblk1p4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty Warning: partition 3 has size 0 but is not marked Empty Warning: no primary partition is marked bootable (active) This does not matter for LILO, but the DOS MBR will not boot this disk. Successfully wrote the new partition table Re-reading the partition table ... If you created or changed a DOS partition, /dev/foo7, say, then use dd(1) to zero the first 512 bytes: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/foo7 bs=512 count=1 (See fdisk(8).) Nokia-N900:~#
References:
http://talk.maemo.org/archive/index.php/t-62826.html
http://www.myn900.com/how-to-install-android-nitdroid-to-n900/
http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=22561
/alak
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