Re: success report, armel on nslu2

["Anders Andersen" <anders.andersen@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I have experienced exactly the same problems with a 4GB USB flash disk!
Strange, there must be some problem with large flash disks...


Kind regards

Anders Andersen

On 3/25/07, Jeff Breidenbach <jeff@jab.org> wrote:
> I bought another nslu2 yesterday, and a 4GB USB flash drive. Absolute
> disaster; every combination I tried ended up failing, usually while
> installing the base system. Fiddled with the etch RC2 installer, armel
> installer, automatic vs manual partitioning, etc.
>
> Today I threw out the memory stick (it was a "PQI u230") and replaced
> it with a 2GB "Corsair Flash Voyager" which had good reviews for speed
> and reliability. Worked like a charm on the first try. I did pre-partition and
> format the USB stick on a desktop Linux computer first, giving 256MB to
> swap and the rest as an ext3 partition. Probably would have worked fine
> letting the installer do this, but but I wanted to minimize the number of
> things that could go wrong.
>
>
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