I kind of know how to use "cat" but have been successfully pushing my images to media using the "dd" command. Then again, I still use rotary dial phones. Has there been a discussion of the pros/cons? "dd" seems to work for me, is there a compelling argument to switch to "cat"?
The "dd" command I use is "dd if=disk.img of=/dev/<name of device>" ... To get the "name of device" I will normally run the "fdisk -l" command to see what device are available. I use a USB reader/writer for my CF cards so it normally returns the device as "/dev/sda1". But I have also used an IDE to CF adapter on the slave IDE channel which returns the device name "/dev/hdb1". I have also found that when running "makeimage.sh" it seems to work more reliably if any pre-existing partitions are first removed from the CF card using "fdisk". To do this, I run "fdisk /dev/<name of device>". Then select "d" to delete a partition. Normally, there is only a single partition so fdisk removes partition "1" by default. I then select "w" to write the changes. I have a peculiarity on my CentOS machine where it doesn't always "autodetect" the CF card when I insert it into the USB reader. Often I have to reboot a couple times, pull the card and re-insert it, run "fdisk -l" a couple times and sprinkle holy water on it. Eventually it seems to find the CF card and let me burn the image. When it doesn't, I move the CF card to the slave IDE channel and burn it that way. This always works but requires re-booting at each step of the burn. I am sure this is an oddity that is unique to my workstation so I have not bothered the list with this one. But if this is common and someone has an "idiot proof" technique for getting the workstation to always see the CF card on insertion, I would sure like to hear it. I hope these observations might prove helpful. Thanks G.Hendershot -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ingmar Schraub Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2006 1:43 PM To: Discussion of AstLinux - Asterisk on Compact Flash Subject: Re: [Astlinux-users] Quick rundown on the usageof mkimage.sh anyone? Hello Michael, > FYI, I've combined and added this great info to the wiki at: > > http://www.voip-info.org/wiki/view/AstLinux+Development+Environment Great stuff! It's really great that someone picked up the topic "documentation" :) BTW, I just added two lines. One to provide a simple example how to do this "cat" stuff. Secondly you should always run make menuconfig and specfiy the correct target, select packages, etc. cheers Ingmar _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.kriscompanies.com/mailman/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
