On 10/08/2010 06:31 AM, Thomas H. George wrote: > On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:40:19PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 10/07/2010 07:21 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: >>> I created this bootable 4Gb usb stick: Debian Lenny, 2.6.25.15 kernel. >>> gnome, wacom mouse installed, network connection ok. >>> one partition, 1.4Gb used and 2.5Gb available. >>> >>> I did it a year ago and I have lost my notes. I know that the creation >>> involved a mixure of Debian Live and debxo (One Laptop per Child) >>> >>> How can I create clones of this usb stick? >>> >> >> dd? > > When I tried dd it transferred all the files into a partition just large > enough to hold them - 97% full. There is free space for another > partition but this is a rather inflexible solution. > > The stick has a single large partition with the operating system and a > slew of programs occupying a little more than a third of the space. > Additional programs can be installed if needed. > --deleted stuff--
The command you ran should have looked something like this: dd if=/dev/sd? of=/dev/sd? bs=1024K where sd? would be something like sdc and sdd, respectively. You may or may not have used the bs= as there is a default for it. What device names did you use? To use dd and get the "whole" stick, including partition table setup, you need the whole disk device name, a single file name. But, you said "...it transferred all the files ...", which leaves me wondering how you did the input spec for dd. -- Bob McGowan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
