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List:       openzaurus-users
Subject:    Re: [Openzaurus-users] Updater -- SD Card not Found!!!
From:       Cam Ellison <cam () ellisonpsychology ! ca>
Date:       2007-11-16 18:29:01
Message-ID: 473DE16D.1000509 () ellisonpsychology ! ca
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Nacho wrote:
> Hi Tim, thanks for answering,
> 
> I finally managed to solve it. As we supposed, it was a problem with the
> partitioning of the SD card. I imagined it when I thought that the SD
> card had two partitions (one for the software and drivers) by default,
> and that I had formatted it with just one partition.
> 
> The issue is that the updater.sh looks for the files in the /dev/sdb2
> partition by default, or whatever it is called in the zaurus (/dev/sdb2
> in my Linux PC). 
> 
> Thanks anyway, now I have my openzaurus back!

Speaking from experience, you need to be careful with SD cards.  They're 
OK if there is not a lot of I/O, but they degrade with use.  I had a lot 
of trouble until I got a larger CF card and put everything on that.

YMMV - that's just my experience.

Cam


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