elmosim2
August 14th, 2009, 05:41 PM
I recently got a dell mini 9 netbook with windows XP on it. (it was refurbished and cheaper than buying with Ubuntu).
Anyway, it only has 8GB of internal flash storage and I keep running out of space. I bought a 16GB SD card in hopes that I could install right on the card.
I can't seem to even get an ext* file system on the card at all. When I'm in the Ubuntu install that's on the internal flash it doesn't even recognize that there's an SD card at all (using gparted).
Short question is simply, can this even be done?
If not, could I use symlinks for the important directories to link them to the SD card maybe? (I'm not sure if that's even what symlinks do).
Thanks in advance for anyone's input!
Anyway, it only has 8GB of internal flash storage and I keep running out of space. I bought a 16GB SD card in hopes that I could install right on the card.
I can't seem to even get an ext* file system on the card at all. When I'm in the Ubuntu install that's on the internal flash it doesn't even recognize that there's an SD card at all (using gparted).
Short question is simply, can this even be done?
If not, could I use symlinks for the important directories to link them to the SD card maybe? (I'm not sure if that's even what symlinks do).
Thanks in advance for anyone's input!