[ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My success and a quick question please!

[Colin Law]

On 4 June 2010 19:35, Daniel Case <danielcase10 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> With your original question, it is possible to use the partition which
> stores everything.
>
> It is located on:
> /dev/mmcblk0p4

I is not a good idea to use it as 'swap' space though is it?  I
understood that using flash for swap was not a good idea as it wears
it out by writing to it often.  Flash has a limited life in terms of
write cycles.

Colin

>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> On 4 June 2010 17:24, Dave Hanson <d.hanson at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
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>>> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:47:01 +0100
>>> From: Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>
>>> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know,   apologies] O2 Joggler - My
>>>       success         and a quick question please!
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>>> On 4 June 2010 15:42, Dave Hanson <d.hanson at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> For those of you trying without any luck to get the O2 Joggler running
>>>> Ubuntu, I have had success with a Black HP 4GB USB (from PC World, Leeds
>>>> ?9.99) and by using the image linked below, it works a lot smoother than the
>>>> Netbook Remix image that is floating around, and leaves enough space on the
>>>> disk to upgrade to Lucid (3 and a half hours wait mind - 2 1/2 to go!).
>>>>
>>>
>>> Good luck with that! I haven't seen anyone run Lucid successfully on
>>> the Joggler.
>>>
>>> Be prepared to get a black screen, console or nothing when you reboot to
>>> lucid.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Al.
>>>
>>> Cheers Al - Yeah it failed, i got a load of messages like this.......
>>>
>>> [134315.948864] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443
>>> [134395.949568] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443
>>> [134495.948082] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 5(5) BSS returned, data->length = 591
>>> [134615.949559] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443
>>> [134735.949344] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443
>>> [134855.949462] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443
>>> [134975.948163] ===>rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data->length = 443
>>>
>>> Oh well - Time to start again.
>>
>> If you look at Dysentry's thread on his UNR version he explains why
>> lucid is a problem, a problem with some driver not available yet if I
>> remember correctly.  I am using that version successfully (his 1.3a
>> with the mods in the first post of his thread).  I do a dump of the
>> usb stick occasionally (using dd) so that if an update or whatever
>> mucks it up I can restore my previous working version rather than
>> going back to the start each time.
>>
>> I have not tried the non unr version so I cannot comment on the relative speed.
>>
>> Colin
>>
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