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Is a gumstix basix motherboard usable without an MMC card? If so, how much space is available in the flash?
Yes. the gumstix basix motherboard is usable without MMC. gumstix ships the basix and connex motherboards with just 2.5MB of space used for:

- the bootloader, kernel (1MB) and

- an initrd (1MB using uClibC based rdimage with busybox).