Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo SDcard updates tactics

2014-10-07 Thread Hinnerk van Bruinehsen
On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 05:29:11AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, There are two SDcards of the same brand and model. The first one cariies a not so current Gentoo Linux. The second one is empty. Now the first one is image-copied to the second one with dd, which copies the contents

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo SDcard updates tactics

2014-10-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:29:10 -0400, Alec Ten Harmsel wrote: Seems like it should work as long as you didn't update the kernel or any other files under /boot, but why not just dd it again? Then you can be sure it works. Given the inherent fragility of SD cards, I would use dd each time, via

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo SDcard updates tactics

2014-10-07 Thread meino . cramer
Hinnerk van Bruinehsen h.v.bruineh...@fu-berlin.de [14-10-07 17:23]: On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 05:29:11AM +0200, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, There are two SDcards of the same brand and model. The first one cariies a not so current Gentoo Linux. The second one is empty. Now the first

[gentoo-user] Gentoo SDcard updates tactics

2014-10-06 Thread meino . cramer
Hi, There are two SDcards of the same brand and model. The first one cariies a not so current Gentoo Linux. The second one is empty. Now the first one is image-copied to the second one with dd, which copies the contents of the whole device (not the partitions). Then the first one is put into my

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo SDcard updates tactics

2014-10-06 Thread Alec Ten Harmsel
On 10/06/2014 11:29 PM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Hi, There are two SDcards of the same brand and model. The first one cariies a not so current Gentoo Linux. The second one is empty. Now the first one is image-copied to the second one with dd, which copies the contents of the whole device