<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/14/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri</b> <<a href="mailto:barbieri@gmail.com">barbieri@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 12/14/05, Stefano Delli Ponti <<a href="mailto:stefano.delliponti@gmail.com">stefano.delliponti@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> Hi Gustavo,<br>><br>> I do think that support for this is needed.<br>> Together with some control panel option to set a swap file on MMC (plus
<br>> some machinery to swapon/swappoff on insertion/extraction of MMC).<br>><br>> I have done this the dirty way (deleted the noexec in /etc/fstab and<br>> swap(ed)on /media/mmc1/swapfile) but we need a comfortable way to set
<br>> these configurations and an installer that gives you the possibility to<br>> install on MMC.<br><br>I don't get it, how swap is related to installing software on extra storage?</blockquote><div><br>Sorry, I have not been clear enough.
<br></div>My concerns are mostly related to lack of system resources: flash memory for the filesystem and ram.<br>I was pointing to the two problems together and to some hypothesis for the solutions.<br>I know you meant to talk in a specific way (and in a broader sense) about software installation on different storage media.
<br><br>Anyway, It is possible to install software on the MMC.<br>A clean and easy way to do this is IMHO necessary.<br><br>Regards,<br>Sted<br><br>P.S.<br>Try the swapfile, it makes this tiny wonderful device a lot more powerful.
<br><br><br><br><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Also, I want to install software not only on MMC, but on network<br>shares and have them visible automatically. Imagine that I want my
<br>"program-that-I-just-use-at-home" to be on a NFS/SMB share at home, so<br>when I connect it will be available. When I'm at work, it'll just<br>vanish and no space is wasted.<br><br>--<br>Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri
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