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Subject: [ts-7000] Re: 7260: Installing Debian distro on an SD Card
From: "jywmpg" <>
Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2007 02:05:06 -0000
Luis,

I came to a similar conclusion shortly after I posted the instructions.

I am a little gun shy, now that I have a working system, to go the
resize route.   But I think it is the right way to go.  Perhaps split
the difference and resize part3 to be larger, then recreate the fourth
 partition of, say, 1 GB.

PJE,

The problem with the fourth partition is that you are left with not so
much room on the third partition if you want to add packages to the
system.

Of course, one can certainly mount the fourth partition read/write and
even move subdirs like /var or /usr/share into the fourth partition to
make room in the third partition.  But that may be more trouble than
it's worth, assuming the resize option is bulletproof.


Regards,

jw




--- In  "PeterElliot" <> wrote:
>
> --- In  Luis Ortega <lortega@> wrote:
> >
> > Success!!!!
> > 
> > The new initrd that Eddie mentioned and available at:
> > 
> > http://www.seiner.com/ts7000/index.php/Booting%20to%20SDCard
> > 
> > made the difference.
> > 
> > As to your instructions What I would recommend would be to reuse 
> part3 
> > instead of creating a part4 in which to place your debian file 
> system. 
> > The instructions for doing so are at:
> > 
> > http://www.seiner.com/ts7000/index.php/Copying%20Boot%20SDCard
> > 
> > where you redefine your part3 with fdisk (in my case using a 
> different 
> > dd image I had to start part3 at 20 instead of 9) and after a 
> reboot you 
> > check and resize with:
> > 
> >     e2fsck -f /dev/sdcard1/disc0/part3
> > 
> >     resize2fs /dev/sdcard1/disc0/part3
> > 
> > I certainly feel much better about my TS-7260 now. I guess I should 
> buy 
> > it a case now. :-)
> 
> Good to hear you got it working.
> 
> I'm trying to work out the relative merits of the forth partion over 
> extending the third partion to use all the available space.
> 
> I'm using a TS-7300, and I would like to fastboot, but to be able to 
> store confguration data on the same SD card, leaving the second SD 
> card for the user.
> 
> With the forth partition, can I simply mount that partition read/
> write while the OS runs from read only partitions.
> 
> Thoughts...
> 
> PJE
>




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