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 Sep 4 2006, 02:09 AM
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i have an sl-c 3200 and i want to make hdd1 a swap partition. i resized it to be 256 mb. i also followed the instructions in http://www.users.on.net/~hluc/myZaurus/ and changed rc.rofilesys. but when i formatted it with mkswap zaurus won't boot. what should i do.
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Sep 4 2006, 03:26 AM
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Unless you know what you're doing you should just keep hdd1 & hdd2 as they are (they don't use a lot of space), then resize hdd3 (the FAT partition) to make room for more partitions. Eg here's what my partition table looks like:
CODE Disk /dev/hdc: 4095 MB, 4095737856 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7936 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdc1 1 20 10048+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc2 21 40 10080 83 Linux /dev/hdc3 41 4885 2441880 c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hdc4 4886 7936 1537704 5 Extended /dev/hdc5 4886 7405 1270048+ 83 Linux /dev/hdc6 7406 7936 267592+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris NB if I was to repartition again I would definitely make the FAT partition even smaller (probably 1GB) and give the space to the ext3. However I've no idea how you can make your system bootable again. |
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Sep 4 2006, 05:40 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 22-July 06 Member No.: 10,499 |
i can make it bootable when i format hdd1 with mke2fs -j and put the files frop trisoft.de. But i want to make hdd1 a swap partition. Currently My hdd1 partition is 256 mb linux swap, hdd2 part is 1024 mb linux ext2 and hdd3 is 4.75 gb fat 32.
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Sep 5 2006, 04:30 PM
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I had that problem too, I just resized my fat32 partition and set up a /dev/hdx4 for a swap partition(256mb) and added a swapon /dev/{$ide}4 to the end of my rc.rofilesys, also added some fsck to hdd1 and hdd2 so it checks them on a reboot.
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Sep 6 2006, 04:03 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 15 Joined: 22-July 06 Member No.: 10,499 |
yes that would work but i just don't understand why doesn't work for /hdd1.
i removed the NotAvailable files formatted using mkswap and changed the rc.rofilesys. but still i get the HDD! ERROR. is there any difference betwen sl-c3100 and 3200 other than the disk size? |
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Sep 6 2006, 12:00 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 742 Joined: 15-October 05 From: Gulag, Siberia Member No.: 8,322 |
QUOTE(Mecit @ Sep 6 2006, 12:03 PM) yes that would work but i just don't understand why doesn't work for /hdd1. It's not worth worrying about how to use the 1st and 2nd partitions. On the 3100 they're only using a measly 20MB out of 4000MB (0.5%) - simply not worth losing sleep over. |
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Sep 6 2006, 07:11 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 1,213 Joined: 9-June 05 From: Gobi Desert, Mongolia Member No.: 7,306 |
actually I increased hdd1 & 2 to 100mb and 1gb for moving stuff like my snes emu/scummvm games along with the apache server and my pine/fetchmail/procmail stuff saved a ton of space, oh yea also a complete set of linux man pages as well.
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