elitistlinuxuser
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I was just curious can games/applications on the openpandora can they be stored and started from a usb thumbdrive.
Well a usb thumbdrive would be more convenient because I don't have a card reader on my computer well I was just curious.Prometheus said:As far as I'm aware, that should be possible. However, there are two SDHC Card slots built into the device, which would strike me as a much more convenient place for storing your files.
The Pandora should function as a card reader. Just plug it in via USB and the SD cards will appear as external drives. At least in theory, that's how it should be able to go. I don't think we've actually seen that part used, so the OS may need some driver tweaks for it to work.linuxftw said:Well a usb thumbdrive would be more convenient because I don't have a card reader on my computer well I was just curious.
linuxftw said:Well a usb thumbdrive would be more convenient because I don't have a card reader on my computer well I was just curious.Prometheus said:As far as I'm aware, that should be possible. However, there are two SDHC Card slots built into the device, which would strike me as a much more convenient place for storing your files.
Prometheus said:There's also the matter of possibly needing a USB hub for using the USB flash-drive if it isn't a USB 2.0 device - I have several that are only USB 1.1, myself. That may dent the convenience of using one.
For more information on the whole USB thing, read this.
Well don't have a card reader but I do have a mini usb cable which can be used with the pandora and put it into slave mode as the wiki says also I'm curious does the pandora come with a mini usb cable.Prometheus said:There's also the matter of possibly needing a USB hub for using the USB flash-drive if it isn't a USB 2.0 device - I have several that are only USB 1.1, myself. That may dent the convenience of using one.
For more information on the whole USB thing, read this.
Well thanks for the advice sorry about that :rolleyes:Prometheus said:linuxftw, there's an button labelled "Edit" on each of your posts - it may be better to edit a previous post rather than continually post new ones if you're still the last respondent in a thread.
Well way to complicated but then again just about everything in linux is.paulguy said:Yknow the good thing about Linux is everything is pretty configurable and the autmated pnd stuff is probably mostly shell script or at least stuff that can be recompiled.
As for hard coded paths in apps, you can probably just use symlinks to redirect stuff, if all this stuff hasn't already even been considered and programmed in already, which seems likely if not now but in the future.
Sorry if this post is a bit scatterbrained, i'm on the iPhone and a bit drugged.
The PND system is smart enough to put the appdata on the "drive" it is being run from, regardless of which filesystem it is.linuxftw said:Well there are applications that require appdata which requires the pandora file system which requires an sd card I guess it wouldn't be possible maybe a third party patch could fix that.
sorry the thoughts of scripts frighten me.paulguy said:It's really pretty simple, I just described it retardedly.