That's not a stupid idea at all. Provided Chad doesn't have the system he wants to backup running, he can just create a tarball (or zip file if that's your thing) of the entire filesystem from whatever media it's stored on.
Hope this helps. Cheers! Aaron 2009/11/27 Merciadri Luca <[email protected]> > This could appear to be a very stupid idea, but did you try to copy > everything on the SD/MMC/CF card (if any) of your device (if it supports > it)? > > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de Chad W. > Didier > Envoyé : mercredi 25 novembre 2009 21:21 > À : [email protected] > Objet : [Angstrom-distro-users] Backing up Angstrom > > Anyone have an idea how to backup Angstrom. I'm currently running the > x11 version. I think I want to try the Opie version.But, I don't want to > lose the work I've already put into the x11 system......updates, network > configs, apps, etc? > > BTW, I originally tried the Opie image of Angstrom. It never finished > booting so I chose the x11 image instead to get my feet wet. Anyone have > an idea? > > Feeds: (yes I have many many questions) Am I understanding correctly > that there are more feeds available than what is included in the os by > default? If so, where can I find more info on feeds? Any way to use the > package browser to search only the feeds corresponding to the version of > Angstrom I have instead of seeing all the cool stuff I can't install? > The manual mentioned something about using a mail client to send a > command to be able to search, I assume, only the feeds for which ipkg > is currently configured. However, it did not go into details about where > to send the command. That is unless I'm missing something which is very > possible. > > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > > > _______________________________________________ > Angstrom-distro-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users > _______________________________________________ Angstrom-distro-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/angstrom-distro-users
