Setting up Android with EmuMMC + bigger FAT32 partition.

tabzer · Aug 7, 2019

jan2705 said:
ah yes i remember in intial version boot.scr were located in sd root (hos_data in this case) thanks now i understand
btw do you think its theoretically possible to put ubuntu into an bootable image files on hos_data instead of an partition (like lakka)?

This is confusing to me. What do you mean?

jan2705 · Aug 7, 2019

tabzer said:
This is confusing to me. What do you mean?

sorry,
i mean that lakka does not need an own partition and if it would be possible to compile ubuntu the same way?

tabzer · Aug 7, 2019

jan2705 said:
sorry,
i mean that lakka does not need an own partition and if it would be possible to compile ubuntu the same way?

"Linux relies on a number of filesystem features that simply are not supported by FAT or NTFS -- Unix-style ownership and permissions, symbolic links, etc. Thus, Linux can't be installed to either FAT or NTFS. (It used to be possible to do this using a FAT driver that adds those features, but it was removed from the kernel years ago because nobody was maintaining it.)"

source: https://superuser.com/questions/782849/can-ubuntu-linux-be-installed-on-fat32-or-ntfs

Andalitez · Aug 7, 2019

I'll be watching the guide soon.
I just want to know,will this allow me to use Android + have a FAT32 partition avail for HOS? I use the file based SX OS emunand which is 5GB in size, so all i actually need is for that to boot correctly
Perhaps I can leave out the EmuMMC parts?

TL ; DR i would like my SD like this = [Android Stuff here] + [FAT32 accessible by HOS here because i have 5GB file based emunand] is that possible?

tabzer · Aug 7, 2019

Currently we do not have an emunand solution. This setup relies on emummc.

lordelan · Aug 7, 2019

tabzer said:
Currently we do not have an emunand solution. This setup relies on emummc.

Basically emuNAND and emuMMC are the same things.
What you meant is: Currently it's working for m4xw's implementation while it does not for SX OS's one.

tabzer · Aug 7, 2019

lordelan said:
Basically emuNAND and emuMMC are the same things.
What you meant is: Currently it's working for m4xw's implementation while it does not for SX OS's one.

Those are the names that the developers chose for their respective implementations. I wasn't trying to be basic.

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Andalitez already demonstrated understanding that emummc and emunand are different.

Andalitez · Aug 7, 2019

I see, thanks for the feedback. Will wait and see what comes up in future

TariqSoftDev · Aug 7, 2019

lordelan said:
Basically emuNAND and emuMMC are the same things.
What you meant is: Currently it's working for m4xw's implementation while it does not for SX OS's one.

Mind doing a test for me? , create a SX OS EmuNand and find the exact sector it starts at; not the hex offset for it, also if you want to help me do some testing on this stuff; PM me.

jan2705 · Aug 7, 2019

tabzer said:
"Linux relies on a number of filesystem features that simply are not supported by FAT or NTFS -- Unix-style ownership and permissions, symbolic links, etc. Thus, Linux can't be installed to either FAT or NTFS. (It used to be possible to do this using a FAT driver that adds those features, but it was removed from the kernel years ago because nobody was maintaining it.)"

source: https://superuser.com/questions/782849/can-ubuntu-linux-be-installed-on-fat32-or-ntfs

Yes i know but lakka is Linux too :o

tman708 · Aug 7, 2019

TariqSoftDev said:
Mind doing a test for me? , create a SX OS EmuNand and find the exact sector it starts at; not the hex offset for it, also if you want to help me do some testing on this stuff; PM me.

I might be able to help with testing for this also if you need it. Im very new with partitioning and stuff though so you'd have to walk me through a bit but if you need extra help just let me know!!

SkyDX · Aug 7, 2019

Thanks for the tutorial! Just to clarify, if I follow this and adjust where needed I can have a single 128gb microSD with 64gb for Android and 64gb FAT32 for my normal, untouched Switch OS?

TariqSoftDev · Aug 7, 2019

SkyDX said:
Thanks for the tutorial! Just to clarify, if I follow this and adjust where needed I can have a single 128gb microSD with 64gb for Android and 64gb FAT32 for my normal, untouched Switch OS?

Doesn't work like so, a 128GB MicroSD will have less than 120GB(118GB or so), android userdata needs to be set right but you can set your FAT32 to 64GB and then write the android stuff, expanding the user data to the remainder

SkyDX · Aug 8, 2019

TariqSoftDev said:
Doesn't work like so, a 128GB MicroSD will have less than 120GB(118GB or so), android userdata needs to be set right but you can set your FAT32 to 64GB and then write the android stuff, expanding the user data to the remainder

Yeah I should have worded that differently, I know space doesn't work like that, what I meant was "Can I use half of the SD-card for Android and the other half for Horizon?"

But so I take it it works! I'm not sure if I'll do it yet because while I watched 20 minutes of your tutorial I'm sure I could get it working but all the calculations went a bit over my head and I would have to setup a Linux VM again first which is a bit tedious with USB pass-through and all that

tabzer · Aug 8, 2019

Getting peazip working and extracting the img files was the most difficult part for me.

Cyan · Aug 8, 2019

peazip ? I used 7zip

I had to update my 7zip because it was too old, but now it's working.

tabzer · Aug 8, 2019

Cyan said:
peazip ? I used 7zip
I had to update my 7zip because it was too old, but now it's working.

LOL. I was smart enough to extract "android-16gb.img" with 7zip, but somehow concluded that I couldn't go the extra step. I wasted a lot of time.

TariqSoftDev · Aug 8, 2019

SkyDX said:
Yeah I should have worded that differently, I know space doesn't work like that, what I meant was "Can I use half of the SD-card for Android and the other half for Horizon?" But so I take it it works! I'm not sure if I'll do it yet because while I watched 20 minutes of your tutorial I'm sure I could get it working but all the calculations went a bit over my head and I would have to setup a Linux VM again first which is a bit tedious with USB pass-through and all that

I'm nearly done with the tool so once it's finished you don't really need to make any calculations.

stoffer666 · Aug 8, 2019

TariqSoftDev said:
I'm nearly done with the tool so once it's finished you don't really need to make any calculations.

So cool will it work on windows or is it for linux.

TariqSoftDev · Aug 8, 2019

stoffer666 said:
So cool will it work on windows or is it for linux.

Just for Linux, Windows version will be a complete separate program but unable to do anything android.

Unsure if I will release a Windows version though.

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