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    Converting To Ext2 Sd Cards

    Oh, I imagine it's possible to format the SD with a Windows 95+ F/S that allows long filenames, though in fact, I was using a plain VFAT16 "msdos" format (which does have the 8.3 filename limit). However, even the long filename VFAT systems have unpleasant limitations, such as case...
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    Converting To Ext2 Sd Cards

    Thanks, Orkie, that's a huge help, and you've answered one of my other questions too, which was how to make a card that automatically executes. I've been wanting to set things up so I can create a "cartridge-like" experience, similar to Nintendo GameBoy or DS . I think that would be a big...
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    Converting To Ext2 Sd Cards

    It does appear that the actual mounting of the SD card is normally done by the gp2xmenu binary. I can replace /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu with a shell script which mounts the drive and then launches the original binary, renamed to /usr/gp2x/gp2xmenu_bin. However, that's really a kludge, so I don't...
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    GP2X Source Code For Gp2xmenu?

    Okay, well I've found a statement saying that the menu is non-free, so no source code is published. That seems really silly to me, but it answers my question.
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    Converting To Ext2 Sd Cards

    Well, there's an explicit mount command for the SD drive is hard-coded in a string within the gp2xmenu binary file. The reason for doing this appears to be to provide the "remount" option, but I couldn't be sure without seeing the source code. However, I've fixed this by patching the binary...
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    GP2X Source Code For Gp2xmenu?

    Where can one find the published source code for the gp2xmenu launcher? The problem is that the launcher won't mount an SD card if it has an ext2 (or anything other than vfat) file system on it. Vfat isn't the most convenient choice of filesystem for Linux game development, so it'd be nice to...
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    Converting To Ext2 Sd Cards

    Thanks for the reply, Vimacs, though still no joy as yet. There is an /etc/profile, which presumeably is supposed to run whenever a shell is started, but it doesn't have anything to do with mounting drives. After a bit of grepping, I have found one explicit mount command for the SD drive...
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    Converting To Ext2 Sd Cards

    I got quite frustrated with using a msdos/FAT filesystem on the SD card (mainly because the 8.3 filenames limit screws with directory trees created on my host machine, and in upstream packages I'm working with), so I'm trying to get my GP2X to play nicely with ext2 (that is, "Linux")...
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