How large is the microSD card, you are trying to use. With a 2GB microSD you will not be able to install plenty of applications and still have some data on the device.
It is strongly recommended to use at least 768MB of swap, so only 1.2GB are available for installable applications and data like contacts and conversations or files.

The basic info you should provide are from the commands in this post http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=933228&postcount=8

With that output you could create the partitioning layout.

can you please tell me more clearly how you did that procedere in this link http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/.../751901#M17953
on 8gb micro sdhc card...i also try it on 2gb licrosd card it say me on xterminal that its in use and i have mount it etc
i want know how to use my 8gb micro sd as i had broken emmc and nothing work on

badro_ron10, why do you still want to use outdated method?

I would suggest to copy and paste X-Terminal output here to look, the description might, as crystal clear it is for you, not tell everything here.

The basic setup in the nokia europe forum does only create swap and a small data partition, If this is good enough for you, fine, go ahead! Nevertheless please post the error messages here not a description.
It may be that you are struggling right now, because maemo automatically mount the external card as data partition only. Thus you are not able to work with it.[code]sudo gainroot
umount /media/mmc1[code]Then you are able to proceed with the howto.

The big advantage of the setup created by the procedure discussed in this very thread here http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p=933228&postcount=8, you could easily clone the setup to any larger microSD card later and would need only to adjust the partition sizes with Gparted.

is there another method exept that outdated method if there is and u can help and explain it well slowly to me i would like that because i am new on this and i just got this n900with error memory internal ....also i did make that outdated method work now on amemory card micro sd 2gb and i want do it on 8 gb or 16 gb or the new method that u knew it,,,because that outdated method have some errors as skype wont work ,,etc thanks

Is that so? After failing to do optification at first boot, will Maemo attempt it on second boot, again, instead of just leaving you with log about failure and no opt?

/Estel

ok how to adjust the partition sizes with Gparted. later,,whats gparted i told u im new to this lol and if u can tell me how i adjust the partition for 8 gb abd 16 gb micro sd

The difference of the method is not that one is outdated and the other one is state of the art. Well, simply there is no such thing in a years old 'smart'phone.

This is the microSD card setup on the default internal card:
The first partition is a data partition, aka MyDocs, the second partition, aka optfs, is an extension of the system setup for applications to install to. The third partition is the very essential swap partition. Because of the RAM shortage, the N900 does all weird stuff, if this partition is missing.

The approach of the nokia.europe forum is to ignore the low space for installable applications because of the small microSD card used. It only provides some small data space and the swap partition. No extra space for installable applications!

Here in post #10 of this thread the whole system is cloned to an external card giving you all the partitions, that the N900 comes with, MyDocs, optfs and swap!

I would suggest, since Maemo is a linux based system, you give some time and effort to learn your first steps in any Debian- or Ubuntu-Live-CD or -Live-USB-stick. This will provide you with the tools to manage the different tasks to tune the N900. The learning curve for beginners might look very steep indeed, but it is only steep! There are no custom ROMs for every situation to use because, you could do most of the things right from the Terminal, this way the 'culture' for the N900 is more a DIY-type of culture.
In Linux you have simple command line tools for cloning one card to another and resize the layout according to the larger space.
Also the procedure to flash the firmware seems to be much more reliable in linux!

Here is the Wiki article about resizing the partitions with the linux application Gparted: http://wiki.maemo.org/Repartitioning...ng_made_simple

hmmm well thanks for help but truth all this i dont know how to do it or even understand it

actualy in this link :http://discussions.europe.nokia.com/.../751901#M17953 a procedure of make micro card sd 2gb as nternal memory on n900 with broken emmc and i try that and it work just with few things not work : i cant copy contacts etc but its ok for me ,,,
so all i want is to use same procedure in this link but for 8gb or 16 gb micro sd
is it possible that there's some commands in xterm etc to do that
just that
also i saw some ppl here saying that they use another procedure that make everything work even skype call and txt and contacts ?whats that procedure n how they do it
thanks for ur help again

ALSO I HAVE A PROBLEM,,u know that n900 emmc broken got just like 250 mb as internal memory but i have it all full just 1kb empty even i have nothing installed on my n900 no applications just rootsh and it was empty before how i clean it