Hi Wally, Thanks for getting back. Missed getting back yesterday- I'll try following your suggestions tonight.
(I'm a bit fearful of accidentally altering the board I'm trying to copy). Canis On Tuesday, February 2, 2016 at 2:39:34 PM UTC-8, Wally Bkg wrote: > > I'll try to walk you through this, step by step but it may take awhile. > I'll try to check this thread everyday. > > Since you are using the eMMC the easiest backup will be if you can "hot > plug" a micro SD card. Get an 8GB Class 10 card. After you boot your > Beaglebone open a terminal window (the root console tab in Cloud9 will > work, although putty or ssh will be better) and do the command: ls > /dev/mmc* > you should see something like: > /dev/mmcblk0 /dev/mmcblk0p1 /dev/mmcblk1boot0 > > Next plug in the SD card and repeat the ls /dev/mmc* command, you should > then see something like: > /dev/mmcblk0 /dev/mmcblk1 /dev/mmcblk1boot1 /dev/mmcblk1p2 > /dev/mmcblk0p1 /dev/mmcblk1boot0 /dev/mmcblk1p1 > > If these appear you should be able to use dd to clone your eMMC to the SD > card. Try this and let me know what you find. Use a card larger than the > eMMC so the command won't fail if your SD card is a bit smaller than the > eMMC, that is why I suggest an 8GB card. > > Hope this helps, If your card doesn't "hot plug" post the links to what > procedures you've found and I can try to help you follow the one I think > should work with the least hassle. > > > > On Monday, February 1, 2016 at 3:19:24 PM UTC-6, canis wrote: >> >> Hi Wally >> >> Many thanks. I'll apologize in advance- there are terms I'm not familiar >> with; I fear I'll have to take small steps >> >> First question, is your system running from an SD card or the eMMC? >> >> Running the eMMC >> >> If running from an SD card, just "clone" or duplicate the card using >> Windows or Linux tools. If its running from the eMMC (on-board storage). >> It'll require knowing some Linux commands. For a beginner, I'd suggest >> downloading an image as close to what is in your eMMC as you can, write >> it to an SD and then mounting the SD card using a USB to SD card adapter >> (this gets you the correct partition layout) on the BBB and using rsync or >> dd to clone (copy) the / (root) and /boot partitions from your eMMC to the >> SD card. >> >> Is the image the list of files & folders visible upon opening BBB on my >> laptop OR the list of folders and files within Cloud 9 OR something else? >> >> Thanks again, >> canis >> >> >> >> >> -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
