<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 8:38 PM, <a href="http://dmatthews.org">dmatthews.org</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mail@dmatthews.org">mail@dmatthews.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:49:43 +0100<br>
Davide Scaini <<a href="mailto:dscaini@gmail.com">dscaini@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> For Android to work properly the Micro SD Card in your FreeRunner needs to<br>
> have 2 primary partitions. The first needs to be a VFAT/MSDOS (16 or 32)<br>
> partition which is used is mounted as '/sdcard', this is used as a storage<br>
> area (for pictures, movies, music, etc). The second is an ext3 partition<br>
> which Android mounts as '/data', this is where it stores settings, caches,<br>
> etc.<br>
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> Experience has shown that sizing these at a ratio of 3 to 1 works best. So<br>
> if you have a 4GB card make a 3GB vfat partition and a 1GB ext3 partion.<br>
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</div>Interestingly my android install does not seem to use the ext3 partition - looks like I wasted some sdcard space making that?<br>
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This is an install from ran's cupcake image:-<br>
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# mount<br>
rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0<br>
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0<br>
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0<br>
proc /proc proc rw 0 0<br>
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0<br>
tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0<br>
/dev/block/mtdblock6 /system jffs2 ro 0 0<br>
/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /sdcard vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1 0 0<br>
/dev/block/mtdblock7 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0<br>
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<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I reply directly to you because our mate dehqan seems nervous...</div><div>in <a href="http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/wiki/GetIt">http://code.google.com/p/android-on-freerunner/wiki/GetIt</a> they write:</div>
<div><strong style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Note</strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Users have reported that it is also possible to install Android by making a single partition formatted as VFAT/MSDOS.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:16px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">I have no other ideas :P</span></div>
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David Matthews<br>
<a href="mailto:mail@dmatthews.org">mail@dmatthews.org</a><br>
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