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Revision as of 19:45, 18 March 2010
Preliminaries
- the iCub head called Chica has a PC104 and 1GB of RAM
- for operating system and software, we have the following setups
2008 hard disk setup
This 100GB drive mounts an installation of Windows XP. While having old versions of YARP, iCub (controlGaze2) etc., this setup is quite stable and contains working demos.
2010 solid state IDE drive setup
This 8GB drive mounts Ubuntu Desktop 9.10 32bit.
Partitions
Automated partitioning resulted in:
/ 7.7GB ext4 swap 400MB
After the default CD installation, we had 4.8GB of available free space on /.
Network
We configured the internet connection in Systems -> Preferences -> Network Connections:
address 10.10.1.60 netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 10.10.1.254 dns servers: 193.136.128.1
Tweaks to minimize read on the solid state drive
We implemented suggestions 1-3 of this article:
http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-using-linux-with-solid-state-drives/
Backups (default Ubuntu configurations) are here:
/etc/fstab.bak