--- In Jim Jackson <> wrote:
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> On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Waleed Marji wrote:
>
> > hi guys..
> > i need ur help with my compact flash..
> > U see my TS 7200 came with a ( scandisk ultra 2) 256
> > MB compact flash on which the Linux Debain GNU was
> > installed from source.. but what we need is to connect
> > a webcam to the kit and we need to download the
> > necessary packages... unfortinatly we ran out of
> > space.. so we got a 512 MB compact flash(Lexar media
> > 4x) but when we connected it we got the following: NO
> > device on IDE controller 0..
>
> What have you done with 512M CFDisk?
> As bought it will have one partition defined and formatted as some
MSDOS
> filesystem. You need to put an ext2 file system on it.
>
> Use fdisk to check the partition state, if the device is /dev/hda,
then
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> fdisk -l /dev/hda
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> and then use
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> mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hda1......
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> to put an ext2 filesystem on the partition.
>
> Jim
>
If disk space is a concern (and physical space is not)another option
is to use an external hard drive. I'm working now to get set up to
boot from an external 80GB USB drive that I bought for under $100
US. I have the complete development system installed with plenty of
room to spare :-)I'll be using this for home automation/web server.
-Keith
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