[Arm-netbook] Skeleton SD image for Mele

cnxsoft cnxsoft at cnx-software.com
Sun May 6 04:09:36 BST 2012


On 03/05/2012 19:00, Barry Kauler wrote:
>> I'd like to mention that 3,999,998,976 bytes won't fit on any 4GB SD
>> card, as my "4GB" card only has 3,956,359,680 bytes.
>> It's still possible to use it, but if such a 4GB image is released, I
>> have to use fdisk to setup my card, format the partitions, extract the
>> different sections in the bin images (u-boot and kernel) and copy the
>> rootfs files manually the ext4 partition on the SD card.
> 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.
>
> Regards,
> Barry Kauler
FYI. I've bought 2 more 4GB Kingston microSD cards and one 8GB card.
Capacity reported by fdisk:
4GB - 3901685760
8 GB - 7822241280



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