Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Stephen Melvin
I've done this a few times on FreeBSD when CF sizes don't match and have found the following sequence to work swimmingly: Assumes you have another FreeBSD system that has a CF card reader and enough disk space to store a memory image of the new CF card. First find out the exact size of the new

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Bill Maas
Hi Marco, On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:17 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote: > Marco A. Calamari wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 06:40 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote: > >> Marco A. Calamari wrote: > >>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: > Hey > > Why don't you just c

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Darrick Hartman
Marco A. Calamari wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 06:40 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote: >> Marco A. Calamari wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: Hey Why don't you just clone it using dd: Insert old card dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Marco A. Calamari
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 06:40 -0600, Darrick Hartman wrote: > Marco A. Calamari wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: > >> Hey > >> > >> Why don't you just clone it using dd: > >> Insert old card > >> dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k > >> Insert

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
or just add additional partitions. Darrick Hartman wrote: > Marco A. Calamari wrote: >> On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: >>> Hey >>> >>> Why don't you just clone it using dd: >>> Insert old card >>> dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k >>> Insert new ca

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Darrick Hartman
Marco A. Calamari wrote: > On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: >> Hey >> >> Why don't you just clone it using dd: >> Insert old card >> dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k >> Insert new card >> dd of=/dev/DEVICE if=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k > > The or

Re: [Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Marco A. Calamari
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 10:51 +0100, Flemming Jacobsen wrote: > Hey > > Why don't you just clone it using dd: > Insert old card > dd if=/dev/DEVICE of=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k > Insert new card > dd of=/dev/DEVICE if=/tmp/soekris.image bs=64k The original CF is 512Mb and the new is 4Gb

[Soekris] Cloning a bootable CF

2009-11-24 Thread Marco A. Calamari
I'm trying to make a fresh CF with linux lenny for my 5501 using the bootable CF that is working on a 4801 and cloning in on a Sandisk UltraII 4GB bought by Soekris store. Minicom speed is the right one. I've done a dump, make and format an 1 GB ext2 partition on the flash, done a restore, re