Are you using ubifs as well? Or some type of compression?
Oh no that's actually a pretty useful idea. I just want to run a very lean, fast install. SDHC is slower than the internal flash. I want to put Debian on the internal flash. And furthermore, I have no use for Ubuntu!

I did not install X... i did a barebones net installation. What is this compression that you speak of?

As I'm still waiting for the arrival of my sheevaplug, I can't do this myself. But I'm trying to prepare  .

I took an old laptop, wiped it out, and installed debian on a 512MB partition, just to see how much space it would take up. It took up 77% of the space and then installing SSH and a couple other tools brought it up to 91%. So... that's not so great :-). Has anyone experimented with emdebian (http://www.emdebian.org/ ), the embedded version? I'd really like to get the bulk of my sheevaplug installed on the internal flash to keep the speed up. I'm going to put the swap on the SDHC card. Are the files smaller when compiled for ARM?

And... that's a lot of questions. Thanks!

Yeah I agree this is REALLY pathetic customer service. Haha i've already created Debian VMs, started writing my scripts, etc. I'm ready to... actually have my product now...

I also think it's lame that they charge your credit card before they ship it. Is there any other USA retailer that carries it?

Out of total curiosity, what are you using the USB audio to do?

Hmm as far as using one or the other... in debian's partition manager, you can tell it to create a logical volume that spans two physical devices. That's what i'm hoping to do with the internal flash and the SDHC card.

Just to throw my experience into the pot - I ordered two weeks ago. They happily charged my credit card, and I received no other notifications / emails after initial contact. I sent them an e-mail about three days ago, and I hope to hear back soon.

Hi there,
You can definitely do this. I ordered my Sheevaplug for this very purpose. Head on over to the squeezebox forums and search for sheevaplug. There are at least a few people doing this. Apparently it stacks up favorably against thin clients and the like. Atom-based systems obviously outperform it. 7.4.2 of Squeezebox Server definitely runs on it, though.

Hi there,
I've been playing around with Debian a bit, and I'm curious if anyone has used LVM with the sheevaplug. It seems to me that we could use LVM to make a logical volume spanning both the internal flash as well as the SDHC card in order to get better speed and a larger disk space to work with. By "better" speed, I mean a speed in between that of the SDHC card and the internal flash. Has anyone done this?

I'd "do it myself" but globalscale sure is taking their sweet time with my order!

I know that class 6 is rated for higher speeds, but in your experiences, has it actually mattered? I found a great deal for a 16gb SDHC Class 4 card. I'd like to grab it, but if a class 6 card will give me better performance, then i'd rather get one of those.