[Arm-netbook] Skeleton SD image for Mele

Barry Kauler bkauler at gmail.com
Sun May 6 12:07:40 BST 2012


On 5/6/12, cnxsoft <cnxsoft at cnx-software.com> wrote:
>> My SD card is 4023386112 bytes, which is smaller than the one that Tom
>> originally uploaded.
>>
>> So, I thought that some cards might be only multiples of 1000 bytes,
>> and I chose 3999998976.
>>
>> I am surprised that yours is even smaller. OK, I will reduce the size
>> of the image again.

> FYI. I've bought 2 more 4GB Kingston microSD cards and one 8GB card.
> Capacity reported by fdisk:
> 4GB - 3901685760
> 8 GB - 7822241280

Oh God, that is terrible! How small will they get and still call them
"4GB"? -- whatever they can get away with I guess.

I have just been through the exercise of reducing the image, but not
that small. I did leave a bit of slack space at the end, but don't
think it is quite enough.

Regards,
Barry Kauler



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