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== Network ==
== Network ==


We configured the internet connection in Systems -> Preferences -> Network Connections. Connection 'Auto eth0' has these manual IPv4 settings:
We configured the internet connection in Systems -> Preferences -> Network Connections:
  address 10.10.1.60
  address 10.10.1.60
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  netmask 255.255.255.0
  gateway 10.10.1.254
  gateway 10.10.1.254
dns servers: 193.136.128.1


== Tweaks to minimize read on the solid state drive ==
== Tweaks to minimize read on the solid state drive ==

Revision as of 19:22, 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 the suggestions of this article:

http://tombuntu.com/index.php/2008/09/04/four-tweaks-for-using-linux-with-solid-state-drives/