Topic: Which format for new SD card

I have a question that I have not seen answered on the board. I want to do a fresh install of the software but I am not sure if I need to format the new SD card in FAT32 or ext2?

Does the software update do a format before intalling?

Thanks!

BTW this is on an I8

Re: Which format for new SD card

None of the above. There isn't any software to speak of. You just use Win32DiskImager to put the image directly onto the SD card.

Re: Which format for new SD card

infocastme wrote:

I have a question that I have not seen answered on the board. I want to do a fresh install of the software but I am not sure if I need to format the new SD card in FAT32 or ext2?

Does the software update do a format before intalling?

Thanks!

BTW this is on an I8

there are four partitons created on the sd card,

ve:~ # fdisk -l /dev/mmcblk0

Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 1979 MB, 1979711488 bytes
4 heads, 16 sectors/track, 60416 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 64 * 512 = 32768 bytes

     Device Boot         Start         End      Blocks  Id System
/dev/mmcblk0p1               1         289        9216  83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p2             289        6049      184320  83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p3            6049       11809      184320  83 Linux
/dev/mmcblk0p4           11809       60161     1547262+ 83 Linux

it's all in the disk image, that's why you use dd or a raw device writer program to create the sd card.

Cleaning up any loose bits and bytes.

Re: Which format for new SD card

btw, if that's the one you got from dmarks... then you need to be aware of a couple things.

it's got a bad crypto serial line, so a stock image won't work on it.

i8's are VERY picky about the sd card, so you can't use just any sd card in them... it takes a fair amount of trial and error to get one that they like.

Cleaning up any loose bits and bytes.