Hi Edwin and Andrew,
If you guys can patch the voyage.update or the associated scripts to
support for image dump, I would be deeply appreciated.
- Punky
Edwin Whitelaw wrote:
If you've loaded the customized image onto a bootable CF, you can put
the CF back in your reader and run:
Assuming your CF is mounted as /dev/sda and you are saving the image
in /usr/src/
dd if=/dev/sda of=/usr/src/<filename.img> bs=<your choice>
will create the file /usr/src/<filename.img> as an image of the CF.
You may want to experiment with the bs= (block size) to get the best
speed though I've found the process isn't terribly fast (using USB 1.1
anyway :-( ). It does allow you to have a canned image that can be
put on a fresh CF without much effort. Note that the size of the
source CF must be <= the target CF and if you use a larger target, the
image will still be the size of the source, ie, if you dd a source
that was installed on a 256MB CF onto a 512MB flash, you'll get a
256MB system installed on the larger flash.
I've found the install procedure to actually work faster though it
does presume the ext2 filesystem is already set up on the CF (not that
hard to script separately or even add to the install scripts.) and
doesn't create the artificially smaller system when run against the
ever larger CFs that are available.
If you unpack a tarball and then do the chroot customization process
to install/remove packages, set passwords, DNS, etc., etc. then tar it
back up, you have a more flexible snapshot of a given setup, IMO.
HTH,
Edwin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a need to create a .img file out of my customized voyage
install. I
am using linux so how would I go about creating a .img file?
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