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      ZGamer
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      when in doubt reboot;). How long after you reboot does it do this?

      Memory glitch??…it's a guess.

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        Cojo
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        I have the same problem. The HDD activity flashes all the time. And it starts right after boot.
        I use Beta 3 and have no extra packages installed.

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          hoba
          last edited by

          what's your amount of ram?

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            Cojo
            last edited by

            I have 256Mb of ram.

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              Criggie
              last edited by

              @Cojo:

              I have the same problem. The HDD activity flashes all the time. And it starts right after boot.
              I use Beta 3 and have no extra packages installed.

              I had a similar problem ages ago with a 0.8 series.  Turned out that the firewall couldn't resolve the ntp server address because the dns servers were not right/reachable.

              So my advice is just search for anything thats wrong.

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                Criggie
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                @thinair:

                • Will this be an issue when I move to a CF card?

                Apparently you can tell the system to mount the CF card r/o and only mount it r/w while a config change happens.

                To do that you put the single word wrap into /etc/platform

                echo wrap > /etc/platform

                But that made no difference for me even after a restart.

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                  hoba
                  last edited by

                  it's not "wrap" anymore, it was changed to "embedded" some time ago

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                    Criggie
                    last edited by

                    @hoba:

                    it's not "wrap" anymore, it was changed to "embedded" some time ago

                    Marvellous thank you.  How do I mount / rw for a bit if I want to change stuff?
                      mount / -o remount,rw
                    doesn't do it.  (yeah I'm a linux hoe)

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                      hoba
                      last edited by

                      /etc/rc.conf_mount_rw
                      /etc/rc.conf_mount_ro

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                        sullrich
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                        Use Diagnostics -> Edit file from the webConfigurator, it does this automatically when you save the file.

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