The downside of this is your 4GB Emmc image will be a 4GB file. If you have a "real" web or ftp server its not much of a a problem, but if you don't it can be a hassle, although I've had good results with large fie transfers using Microsoft's "free" One Drive service, although I'd signed up for it long enough ago that I got 15GB storage, new accounts get less. Robert's 4GB images with xzcat usually come in under a GB and the 2016-04-03 images expands to about 3GB when expanded and written to an SD card.
If your remote is a Windows host, life is more complicated, in any case. On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 5:20:15 PM UTC-5, William Hermans wrote: > > Unless you're already familiar with bmaptool, dd is probably the best, and > easiest method to back up the whole sdcard byte for byte. simply place the > sdcard in any Linux system that is not running off the sdcard live, and run > > # dd if=/path/to/sdcard of=/path/to/save_file.ext > > Technically the file it's saved as does not even need an extension, but it > makes it clearer as to what the file is. Also, the Linux system used to > make the backup can be made from the beaglebone too, but it can not be > running live off the sdcard at the time. Additionally "#" indicates this > must be run as root, but does not necessarily mean you have to be logged in > as root. You can also use sudo . . . > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Wally Bkg <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> I think bmaptools will be the most efficient way in terms of the file you >> distribute. But I'm not sure if the bmaptools are available for Windows >> systems >> >> >> https://source.tizen.org/documentation/reference/bmaptool/usage/bmaptool-create >> >> >> Otherwise you can dd the SD card to xzcat to produce a compressed image >> file like Robert distributes testing images on elinux.org >> >> >> On Tuesday, April 12, 2016 at 3:05:37 PM UTC-5, [email protected] >> wrote: >>> >>> Good afternoon! >>> >>> I have successfully created a bootablr microSD by using the following: >>> >>> /opt/scripts/tools/eMMC/beaglebone-black-make-microSD-flasher-from-eMMC.sh >>> to write an image from the on-board eMMC to a microSD card >>> >>> Now I need to send the image to our colleagues in Houston, and I want >>> to create an single image file from the newly created bootable microSD >>> card, how can I do this? >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Kevin >>> >>> -- >> 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] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- 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.
