Peter Flynn wrote: > I have a nicely-running N800, but the apps I use are taking up most of > the internal space. I want to add a couple of big ones (TeX is one) and > I have plenty of space on SD cards. Is there a command for package > installation that says, in effect, "install this all in /media/foo/bar > and symlink it back to where you would normally have installed it"? Or > some other way? I guess if I knew how to view the inside of a package I > could work out where all the big stuff is expecting to go, and create > symlinks in those places to the SD cards...or would that make the > installer spit blood when it finds that symlinks exist where it expected > to create new directories? > didn't look into it myself but I think if you find a way to bolt-on unionFS (http://www.filesystems.org/project-unionfs.html) you can achieve that - have a "base" system on built-in flash and the rest on SD or whatever else you feel like. EeePC does that out-of-the box, and I think it's a darn good idea - having stable OS underneath and having easy roll-back plan (just wipe FS stacked on top of "base"). Good luck with your search :) _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
