[Arm-netbook] Fwd: Notification from Dropbox

cnxsoft cnxsoft at cnx-software.com
Fri Apr 20 12:26:10 BST 2012


On 20/04/2012 18:12, Barry Kauler wrote:
>> I conducted an experiment, I did the "dd if=/dev/zero of=dummyfile"
>> thing on both of the partitions, then made another image. using lzma,
>> with default compression-level (6), the size of the file is 931MB -- a
>> considerable reduction.
> One possible problem though. My image, uncompressed, is 3.747 GiB
> (4023386112 bytes), whereas the one from Tom is 3.733 GiB (4008706048
> bytes).
>
> So, it would seem that my SD card is slightly bigger. It would be
> better if the size reduction operation is performed on the smaller SD
> card.
>
> Regards,
> Barry Kauler
>
>
I've got the opposite problem, my 4 GB SD card is smaller than Tom's. 
I've tried it anyway, but it miserably fails to boot (kernel panic).
I've then tried to extract the partitions and move them to my SD card, 
but I've been unsuccessful so far.



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