Hi,
As far as I understand (and my tech knowledge is limited to basic unix/linux, as mentioned I avoided dual boot since I killed a hard drive many years ago, so before colinux I have not used linux, just cygwin ocasionally, and I used Unix profesionally many years ago only in graduate school and for several years after, though only at a simple shell scripts/awk user level) you have to partion the rs-mmc card, then format one partion in linux format as swap memory, use a tool from maemo to switch it on/off and you add "extra internal memory" to your Nokia 770, as much as you put in that partition, for example I would do 64 or 128 Mb out of a 1 Gb card. On a linux box it is very easy to do it, but I am not sure with my colinux, though I mount easily my hard drive, I did not try to mount other drives (I have cd, mmc, cf, sm, sd). I will do more research as soon as my 1 Gb card arrives. I have a spare older pc, so in extremis I would just install Linux on it, but I'd rather not do it for the time and energy required.
To get root permission and do the extended file system thing there are detailed instructions at maemo.org, though again you need a linux/mac access to an usb port this time as far as I understand it and that one may or may not be trickier/possible to do on colinux, I will just do the research if I feel I need it.
For the moment just getting more internal memory would make me happy, so I will try the swap thing as soon as I get my card.
Liviu
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Originally Posted by ascherjim
However, I know nothing about the effecting of "swapping" and "flashing" to render pdf files quicker to retrieve and read, as referred to by earlier contributors to this thread. Do you know much about this, or can you refer me to an appropriate learning source? Regards and thank again, Jim
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