Chica

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 manually configured the internet connection in /etc/network/interfaces:

auto lo
iface lo inet static
address 10.10.1.60
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.10.1.0
broadcast 10.10.1.255
gateway 10.10.1.254

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/