Jason Kridner said that "It is possible to repartition and format the
ext3 partition on the validation SD card and download/extract demo-
XXXX.tar.bz2 from the same location as the validation and demo images
directly from your BeagleBoard"
Is it also true I can do this with the demo image?
I have done this under Ubuntu on an x86 platform, using gparted, but
it does not allow me to alter the ext3 partition. I can alter the
partition on the beagleboard under angstrom where the card is attached
via usb, however un-tarring of a typical angstrom build to the card
took 15 hours via Archive manager - will this be quicker by command
line? Is this partition only ever going to be alterable via the
beagleboard under this configuration?
Is the unallocated space I found on the demo image (it is a 4gb card)
key to the geometry for OMAP, meaning if I repartition under Ubuntu
using the unallocated space it will stop the card from working in OMAP?
Sorry - I didn't make it clear, my intention is to untar a narcissus
build to ext3, not the demo image again.
Plug the SD card into your computer, delete the smaller ext3 partition and
create the new one which will occupy the rest of the SD card, create the ext3
FS on it and untar the Narcissus image into it.
Whatever I try it just gives me a read only file system on the Ext3
partition - the FAT32 is fine. I reckon the brand new card died on a
few attempts in different ways to install an Angstrom build from
Narcissus. I give up after 60 hours of trying, just going to use the
image for SD that does work, I am not experienced enough in Linux yet
to do this obviously.
What error are you getting?