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Author Topic: GroovyArcade minimum USB/HDD/SD/CF storage space required.  (Read 2155 times)

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Does anyone know that absolute minimum storage requirement to install Groovy Arcade?
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Re: GroovyArcade minimum USB/HDD/SD/CF storage space required.
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2015, 02:13:12 pm »
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Re: GroovyArcade minimum USB/HDD/SD/CF storage space required.
« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2015, 05:03:02 am »
Does anyone know that absolute minimum storage requirement to install Groovy Arcade?

I am using 3G storage with ~600M left (no swap, single part, no roms). I've hacked the gasetup script to allow this.

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Re: GroovyArcade minimum USB/HDD/SD/CF storage space required.
« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2015, 08:59:34 am »
Thank you, I had a small flash drive but it looks like a CF ide adapter and cf card is in order


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Re: GroovyArcade minimum USB/HDD/SD/CF storage space required.
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2015, 12:43:52 pm »
On my guide I recommended 8 GB at least. Some people reported using smaller drives however, but I wouldn't trust to automatic partitioning to work properly with them.
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Re: GroovyArcade minimum USB/HDD/SD/CF storage space required.
« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2015, 11:32:20 am »
On my guide I recommended 8 GB at least. Some people reported using smaller drives however, but I wouldn't trust to automatic partitioning to work properly with them.

The automatic partitioner (inside file interactive) requires a minimum of 4G. Swap is set to 500M for capacity up to 8G and is set to 1G with more space. Boot partition is always 100M.

With enough ram (above 1G), swap can be disabled at no risk.