The Leewit Needs Your Help

The Leewit is an Asus subcompact that weighs less than the book I'm reading at the moment. It has 1024 MB of memory and is running eee-PC 1.0 (which is based on the Linux flavor known as Xandros) on an Intel mobile processor. For ease of moving things between it and the desktop (still no wireless at the Confusion Factory; we're working on it, but it's 'waaaaay down the list and not moving up very fast due to the various necessary things that keep jumping line) -- anyhow. Because the Leewit has very little on-board memory, I bought it a 4-gig PNY SD card. The idea was to save everything I worked on to the card, then move the card to the desktop and download. Simple, easy, efficient.

Except. The desktop -- an HP Pavilion, call-name Altair, that I keep thinking of as "the new computer," though it's obviously not, since it's running XP version 2002 -- does not recognize something so heady and strange as a 4-gig card.

Now the Leewit, which can see and save to this card justfinethanks, informs me that it is looking at Partition One. Which gives rise to the notion that there Could Be a Partition Two and indeed a Partition Three, if I only knew how to partition SD cards in Linux. And! the thought further goes that, if the partitions are small enough and tasty, the desktop will be able to see them.

So, techie-types: Is the second assumption at all valid? And, if so, can someone walk me through the partitioning process?

Abundant Spanish Aunts.

High Change

Janet Kagan has died.

She was funny, and modest; she had a red-headed temper, and she wrote one of my favorite books ever.