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Mounting Drives in Midori on IA-1
Question about how to mount CF card & USB hard drive

New MessageMounting Drives in Midori on IA-1 (modified 0 times) kmjoyce
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I have a Compaq IA-1 that I want to convert to a digital picture frame. I have cracked it open, flashed it, & installed Midori. It runs great.

I am having trouble mounting the CF card to load images. I am using the command mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/cf -t ext2. I guess the problem may be that the CF card is formatted for windoze. Is there a way create a linux file system from Win2K or Cygwin?

I am also having problems mounting a USB hard drive. My attempts to mount /dev/sda give an error like "sda is not a valid block device". Any suggestions?

12-09-2003 08:24:30

New MessageRE:Mounting Drives in Midori on IA-1 (modified 0 times) mckemie
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Can't help you directly. I believe most CFs are formated vfat or fat16; the mount command without the "-t" should have worked. If you want to use ext2, you should be able to repartition with fdisk, cfdisk, or other, them mke2fs to create a ext2 partition. I use a PCMCIA x CF adapter to read and write CFs on a laptop. USB x CF adapters can also be used.

I am using a Midori/IA-1 on my all-Linux lan with a USB nic. Works very well with a few exceptions. I can run X remotely ("X -query <IP>") as well as do nfs mounts; both methods can be used to present slide shows on the IA-1.

On remote-X, Midori does not place the cursor where it thinks the pointer is located in the horizontal dimension.

12-13-2003 18:22:54

New MessageRE:Mounting Drives in Midori on IA-1 (modified 0 times) 6thed
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I was able to mount the Compact Flash card in Midori by using the following commands... First I made a directory - mkdir /tmp/stuff. Then I mounted the compact flash card by typing mount /dev/hdc1 /tmp/stuff . It worked fine and the file system was FAT 16 . The Compact Flash files can be accessed by going to /tmp/stuff. Unfortunately when the system is rebooted you have to do it all again, but I think if you put the commands in the Linux "startup" file (not sure what it is called) and save the configuration it will automatically mount each time.

For you your second question I think you have to use "sda1" instead of just "sda".

05-25-2004 07:05:08

New MessageRE:Mounting Drives in Midori on IA-1 (modified 0 times) pug_s
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I have a 256mb CF that I would like to put in. Would the Compaq IA-1 recognize it?
06-02-2004 19:40:43

New MessageRE:Mounting Drives in Midori on IA-1 (modified 0 times) erroneus000
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After some extensive work/play, I have been able to get my 256MB CF formatted and bootable. I wanted to make it freedos instead of MSDOS but I gave up messing with it though I think if I kept at it, I could have pulled it off.

I am curious to know if there are other sites discussing and more importantly developing for the IA-1 and similar devices. I like what I've got now (M4IA-2.3pre.img) but it's a little incomplete. I don't have the patience to learn to use one of those build kits but I sure would like to replace Opera from the current image I have now. I understand FireFox should be small enough shouldn't it?

07-02-2004 16:35:47

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