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Title: Noob - Need help understanding memory arrangement on C-XXX
Post by: Anonymous on April 30, 2004, 03:27:14 pm
I recently received a C-760 and I\'m running the Cacko Rom 1.21 w/hot fix.  I know my C-760 has 128mb of flash memory and 64mb of ram.  Here are my questions:

1)  The Storage tab in the System Info app shows both Internal Flash and Temp Storage.  I assume Internal Flash is the remaining left of the 128mb after flashing a rom and Temp Storage is my remaining ram, correct?

2)  The Package Installer gives me 3 locations to install an app, Internal Flash, CF or SD.  If installed to Internal Flash does the app get installed to the 128mb flash area and can survive a hard reboot or is this the 64mb ram area?

3)  If apps are installed to the 64mb ram area by the package installer, how can I install all of my favorite programs into the 128mb protected flash area?

Thanks in advance for your help.

BTW this thing is AWESOME !!!!!  

Roland
Title: Noob - Need help understanding memory arrangement on C-XXX
Post by: Stubear on April 30, 2004, 11:55:21 pm
1) Internal Flash is the writeable portion of the 128Mb,on the standard C760 the 128Mb is broken into 3 parts (roughly 8Mb, 52Mb, 68Mb) where the 52MB is the read-only root filesystem, the 68Mb is the writable Internal Flash (including parts of Qtopia not on read-only filesystem) and the 8Mb is kernel and flashing system stuff - I\'ve never been able to mount it to see for sure. The TEMP storage is the 1Mb RAM disk mounted on /dev/shm used as temp - it\'s using 1Mb of RAM only.

2) All packeages installed to the Internal Flash are installed to the writeable partition of the flash and will survive a hard reboot.

3) The RAM is used as per a laptop/desktop - no packages are installed here

As you are Cacko you may have reformated you read-only space and therefore have more room on the writeable (this will be shown in the sysinfo tab - it has total, used and free)

Stu
Title: Noob - Need help understanding memory arrangement on C-XXX
Post by: Anonymous on May 01, 2004, 01:14:26 pm
Thanks Stu for the very thorough answer, that\'s what I was looking for.  In the absence of detailed documentation, this site and community is invaluable.

Roland